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 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++la·ment1 /ləˈment/ verb written  1  [intransitive, transitive]SAD/UNHAPPY to express feelings of great sadness about something (为…)悲痛，哀悼；痛惜；悲叹 The nation lamented the death of its great war leader. 举国上下都在哀悼他们伟大的战时领袖。2  [transitive]ANNOYDISAPPOINTED to express annoyance or disappointment about something you think is unsatisfactory or unfair 抱怨lament that He lamented that people had expected too much of him too soon. 他抱怨大家一下子对他期望过高。 She lamented the fact that manufacturers did not produce small packs for single-person households. 她抱怨厂商没有生产供单人家庭使用的小包装。lament the lack/absence/decline etc of something Steiner lamented the lack of public interest in the issue. 斯坦纳抱怨公众不关心这个问题。→ See Verb table

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lament• "I can remember my first day of school, " Grandpa lamented, "but I can't remember what I had for lunch."• Nigel Mansell will defy critics who lament his departure from Formula One and make a success of Indy 500.• Experts lament that neither the central government nor most states have agencies dedicated to disaster planning.• Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once lamented that since everyone handles money, there are many know-nothings who think they understand economics.• Puzzled successors lamented the complexity of late Beethoven.• A gathering of family and friends lamented the deaths of the two pilots.• During a stop at a beach, Babbitt lamented the intrusion of non-native Tamarisk bushes along the river banks.• For example, many district sales managers lamented the lack of enough qualified leads for account representatives to make their goals.• Will expressed a desire to keep the twenty-two dele-gates and later lamented their loss.lament the lack/absence/decline etc of something• Crossing in Force 9 winds led me to lament the absence of a grab-rail in the shower.• For example, many district sales managers lamented the lack of enough qualified leads for account representatives to make their goals.• Romano Prodi, president of the commission, lamented the lack of radical reform.

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lament2 noun [countable]  APMa song, piece of music, or something that you say, that expresses a feeling of sadness 挽歌；哀乐；悼词 A lone piper played a lament. 风笛手独自吹起一支挽歌。lament for a lament for the dead 哀悼死者

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lament• What a dismal, doleful, baleful lament of a speech we had from him.• The Farous' lament came to an end and the boy punched the tape out of its slot.• More than offer: I had barely mentioned what my book was about when her lament came pouring out.• A mariachi band approaches and launches into a lively lament on what it is to be alone and without love.• Brueggemann then contrasts the pit imagery with that of the wing, which also occurs in these psalms of lament.• On trips organised for food writers, public perfidy is a popular lament.• However, it is clear that the technologist who replies to the conservationist's lament is not an alternative technologist.Origin lament1 (1500-1600) French lamenter, from Latin lamentari, from lamentum “a lament”

la·ment1 verblament2 nounChineseSyllable  

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la‧ment¹ /ləˈment/ verb written1. [intransitive and transitive] to express feelings of great sadness about something:
    The nation lamented the death of its great war leader.
2. [transitive] to express annoyance or disappointment about something you think is unsatisfactory or unfair
    lament that
    He lamented that people had expected too much of him too soon.
    She lamented the fact that manufacturers did not produce small packs for single-person households.
    lament the lack/absence/decline etc of something
    Steiner lamented the lack of public interest in the issue.

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lament² noun [countable]
a song, piece of music, or something that you say, that expresses a feeling of sadness:
    A lone piper played a lament.
    lament for
    a lament for the dead