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lamentation

英 [læmən'teɪʃ(ə)n] 美 [,læmən'teʃən]

解释

n. 悲叹，哀悼；恸哭

※ 提供单词"lamentation"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

英文词源

lamentation (n.): late 14c., from Old French lamentacion and directly from Latin lamentationem (nominative lamentatio) "wailing, moaning, weeping," noun of action from past participle stem of lamentari "to wail, moan, weep, lament," from lamentum "a wailing," from PIE root *la- "to shout, cry," probably ultimately imitative. Replaced Old English cwiþan.

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例句和用法

1. It was a time for mourning and lamentation.: 这是一个沉痛悼念的时刻。

2. This ingredient does not invite or generally produce lugubrious lamentation.: 这一要素并不引起,或者说通常不产生故作悲伤的叹息.

3. Much lamentation followed the death of the old king.: 老国王晏驾,人们悲恸不已.

4. There was lamentation throughout the land at the news of the defeat.: 败北的消息传来,举国哀叹.

5. 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.