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

• John is lamenting over his girlfriend's misfortunes.
  约翰为他女友的不幸而感到悲伤。
• The girl has been lamenting over her misfortunes.
  那个女孩一直在为自己的不幸而悲伤。
• The poem opens by lamenting over the death of a young man.
  这首诗以哀悼一个青年的死开篇。
• It sounds as though you were lamenting, a butterfly cooing like a dove.
  听起来你似在悲叹，一只如鸽子哀鸣的蝴蝶。
• I know I risk sounding like a bureaucrat in the French Ministry of Culture lamenting the dilution of the French tongue by English words like computer and Internet.
  我知道这种腔调听着像个法国文化部官僚在哀叹，法语被computer、Internet之类的英文词给侵蚀了。
• Some are already lamenting how quickly spring has turned to winter.
  有些人已在哀叹春去冬来是如此之快。
• We should not waste our time and tears lamenting it.
  与其浪费时间和眼泪去哀悼，不如集中精力重整河山。
• The New York Times published an article recently lamenting the death of conversation.
  《纽约时报》近日发表的一篇文章表达了对沟通对话被扼杀的惋惜之情。
• She could feel her soul crying out in her, lamenting desolately.
  她感到自己的灵魂在内心呼唤，悲伤哀切。
• 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。