gripe

英 [ɡraɪp]

美 [ɡraɪp]

n. 抱怨; 怨言; 牢骚
v. 抱怨; 发牢骚

复数：gripes　现在分词：griping　第三人称单数：gripes　过去式：griped　过去分词：griped　

Collins.1 / BNC.32678 / COCA.17456

牛津词典

noun

抱怨；怨言；牢骚
a complaint about sth
1. My only gripe about the hotel was the food.
  我对这家旅馆唯一不满的是伙食。

verb

抱怨；发牢骚
to complain about sb/sth in an annoying way
1. He's always griping about the people at work.
  他老是抱怨共事的人。

VERB 抱怨；发牢骚
If you say that someoneis griping, you mean they are annoying you because they keep on complaining about something.
1. Why are football players griping when the average salary is half a million dollars?...
  足球运动员的平均薪水已达50万美金，他们为什么还要抱怨呢？
2. They were always griping about high prices.
  他们总是抱怨物价太高。
N-COUNT 抱怨；牢骚
Agripeis a complaint about something.
1. My only gripe is that one main course and one dessert were unavailable.
  我唯一不满的就是连一道主菜和一份甜点都没有。

noun

informal terms for objecting
1. I have a gripe about the service here
Synonym:kickbeefbitchsquawk

verb

complain
1. What was he hollering about?
Synonym:bitchgrousecrabbeefsquawkbellyacheholler

Of course, global rivals demoted by the arrival of the Chinese have little to gripe about.
当然，全球竞争对手的市值排名尽管被中国上市银行超越，也没有什么可抱怨的。
My main gripe is, there's no hot water.
我主要的不满是这里没有热水供应。
However, my biggest single gripe is that this place is a high priced diploma mill.
但是，最让我纠结的是这个学校的高价的野鸡大学。
Today, we gripe about it taking an extra few seconds for a text message to go through.
而今天，如果一条文字信息的传送多花了几秒钟的时间，我们就会发牢骚。
Question: what's the biggest gripe of retirees?
问：退休的人最常发的牢骚是？
I gripe more from habit than from genuine distress.
我抱怨是出于我的习惯，并非遭遇真正的不幸。
Indeed, he found the language so difficult that he even called his mother to gripe about the classes.
的确，他发现中文掌握起来太难了，以至于他曾给母亲打电话，抱怨课程的不易。
My only gripe about the hotel was the food.
我对这家旅馆惟一的不满是食物。
The host generally pays, and no one needs to hear you gripe about appetizer prices or shrimp count.
主人通常都会支付账单，没人想要听到你抱怨关于开胃菜的价格或者小虾的个数。