lamentation

英 [ˌlæmənˈteɪʃn]

美 [ˌlæmənˈteɪʃn]

n.  悲伤; 悲痛; 悲哀; 十分失望

复数：lamentations　

CET6

BNC.22161 / COCA.23933

牛津词典

noun

• 悲伤；悲痛；悲哀；十分失望
  an expression of great sadness or disappointment

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 悲恸；哀悼
  Alamentationis an expression of great sorrow.
  1. It was a time for mourning and lamentation.
     这是一个沉痛悼念的时刻。
  2. ...special prayers and lamentations.
     特别祷告和哀悼

英英释义

noun

• the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
  Synonym:mourning
• a cry of sorrow and grief
  1. their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward
  Synonym:lamentplaintwail

双语例句

• The little that she said was all in lamentation of this inevitable delay.
  她所说的寥寥数语，全是哀叹这迫不得已的耽延。
• Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.
  徒8：2有虔诚的人、把司提反埋葬了、为他捶胸大哭。
• Because of this I will wail and howl; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals And a lamentation like the ostriches.
  8申言者说，因此我必悲恸哀号，赤脚露体而行；又要呼号如野狗，哀鸣如鸵鸟。
• And they will call the farmer to mourning, And for wailing to those skilled in lamentation.
  又必叫农夫来哭号，叫善唱哀歌的来哀哭。
• Yet hear the word of the lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
  妇女们哪，你们当听耶和华的话，领受他口中的言语；又当教导你们的儿女举哀，各人教导邻舍唱哀歌。
• An utterance of grief or sorrow; a lamentation.
  悲哀或伤心的表达；哀诉。
• It's his own lamentation, and the lamentation of the nation all together.
  这是他个人的哀歌，也是整个民族的哀歌。
• In this way arose feudal socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future;
  这样就产生了封建的社会主义，半是挽歌，半是谤文，半是过去的回音，半是未来的恫吓；
• But the little stream would not be comforted, and still kept telling its unintelligible secret of some very mournful mystery that had happened-or making a prophetic lamentation about something that was yet to happen-within the verge of the dismal forest.
  但那小溪并没有因此而得到安慰，仍然不停地唠叨着在这阴森的树林中已经发生的一些十分哀伤的故事或是预言某些将要发生的事情的伤心之处诉说着其中莫测的隐秘。
• What have I to do with lamentation?
  我有什么可悲叹的呢？