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

• There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
  在摩押的各房顶上和街市上处处有人哀哭。因我打碎摩押，好像打碎无人喜悦的器皿。
• 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。
• An eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air.
  一只苍鹰，在附近盘旋，听到了乌龟的悲叹和需求，就问会有什么报酬如果把她带到高空教她滑翔。
• This is grief with a focus, lamentation with a purpose.
  这是有焦点的悲痛，这是有目的的哀恸。
• Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.
  适度的悲伤是死者的权利，过度的哀恸是生者的敌人。
• 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。
• Above all, we suspended game operation in3 days of lamentation period.
  首先，我们在三天哀悼期停止了游戏运营。
• The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
  主如仇敌吞灭以色列和锡安的一切宫殿，拆毁百姓的保障。在犹大民中加增悲伤哭号。
• 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？