lamenting

英 [ləˈmentɪŋ]

美 [ləˈmentɪŋ]

v.  对…感到悲痛; 痛惜; 对…表示失望
lament的现在分词

现在分词：lamenting　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 为…悲痛；哀叹；痛惜
  If youlamentsomething, you express your sadness, regret, or disappointment about it.
  1. Ken began to lament the death of his only son...
     肯开始对独子的死悲痛不已。
  2. He laments that people in Villa El Salvador are suspicious of the police...
     他哀叹埃尔萨尔瓦多镇的居民居然不信任警方。
  3. 'Prices are down 40 per cent since Christmas,' he lamented.
     “圣诞节以来物价降了4成，”他悲叹道。
• N-COUNT 悲痛之情；哀叹；痛惜
  Someone'slamentis an expression of their sadness, regret, or disappointment about something.
  1. She spoke of the professional woman's lament that a woman's judgment is questioned more than a man's.
     她谈到职业女性的悲哀：与男性相比，她们的判断力更易遭人质疑。
• N-COUNT 悼词；挽歌
  Alamentis a poem, song, or piece of music which expresses sorrow that someone has died.
  1. A singer on the country music station was singing a lament for the late, great Buddy Holly.
     乡村音乐电台中，一位歌手正演唱歌曲哀悼已故的伟大音乐人巴迪·霍利。

双语例句

• Some cultural pessimists have gone further still, lamenting the strange tendency of adults to become as obsessed with the Harry Potter books as their children.
  一些文化悲观论者说得更过，他们对成年人变得像自己的孩子一样迷恋《哈利波特》的奇怪潮流发出了哀叹。
• Of course, lamenting the lack of anything worth watching has long been a national pastime.
  当然，长期以来，抱怨没什么值得看的节目已经成了一种全国性的消遣。
• Katydids were lamenting fall's approach.
  蝈蝈儿正为秋天临近而哀鸣。
• This is the most beautiful and most lamenting fairy tales I have ever read.
  这是我喜欢的童话里最悲伤最美丽的一篇。
• The footsteps came nearer, grew quiet and turned to low whispers like ghosts lamenting.
  那声音渐听渐近，没有了；换上的是低沉的戚戚声，如鬼低诉。
• John is lamenting over his girlfriend's misfortunes.
  约翰为他女友的不幸而感到悲伤。
• Jeremy Hunt, culture secretary, announced the new spending while lamenting that the UK was falling behind France and Germany in attracting Chinese tourists.
  英国文化大臣杰里米亨特（jeremyhunt）在宣布这项新的支出时，对英国在吸引中国游客方面落后于法国和德国表示遗憾。
• Lamenting sinners; wailing mourners; the wailing wind; wailful bagpipes; tangle her desires with wailful sonnets-Shakespeare.
  哀泣的罪人；哀叹的忏悔者；哀泣的风；哀泣的风笛；令人悲痛的诗句混乱了她的思绪-莎士比亚。
• The girl has been lamenting over her misfortunes.
  那个女孩一直在为自己的不幸而悲伤。
• It's no good lamenting over your past mistakes.
  懊悔你过去的错误是没有用的。