lamentations

英 [ˌlæmɛnˈteɪʃənz]

美

n.  悲伤; 悲痛; 悲哀; 十分失望
lamentation的复数

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

• an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
  Synonym:Book of Lamentations

双语例句

• "When they reached shiyin's gate and saw the child in his arms, the monk burst into lamentations."
  “及至到了他门前，看见士隐抱着英莲，那僧便大哭起来”
• But they did not know what endless misery he had brought upon other countries, nor did they hear the sighs and lamentations which rose up from the d é bris of the destroyed cities.
  他们没有想到他在别的国家里造成的灾难，他们没有听到从那些烧毁了的城市的废墟中发出的呻吟和叹息声。
• Pausing in her lamentations, she surveyed him with a glance of awe and horror, then burst forth anew.
  她不再哀哭，用一种惧怕的眼光打量他，跟着又重新哭起来。
• I suppose we shall have plenty of lamentations now I see we shall but they can't keep me from my narrow home out yonder: my resting-place, where I'm bound before spring is over!
  我看我们如今要有许多让人哀恸的事啦我看出我们要有的可是哀恸也不能拦住我不去那边我那狭小的家：我安息的地方。
• In his need, the weight of the world lifts from his shoulders, allowing him to march forth without heed to the lamentations of his body.
  在他的信念中，他一肩可以扛下全世界的重负，使他的征程达到不以物喜不以己悲的境界。
• Most of the book of Lamentations, like Ps 119, is an acrostic. an Israelite prophet in the Old Testament who is remembered for his angry lamentations ( jeremiads) about the wickedness of his people.
  耶利米哀歌的大部分篇章都和诗篇119篇一样，属于离合诗。在《旧约全书》中以他的悲愤的关于他的人民的罪恶的《耶利米哀歌》而被人们纪念的以色列先知。
• And all the male singers and female singers speak of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, for they have made it a custom in israel; and they are there written in the lamentations.
  所有歌唱的男女在他们的哀歌中，追悼约西亚，直到今日，他们在以色列中以此作为定例；这些歌都记在哀歌书上。
• They remembered his dreadful lamentations when Throw took them away from his care.
  他们想起了索恩牧师从他身边把他们带走时他满怀惆怅的叮咛。
• She accused herself, with tears and lamentations, of giving him bad food.
  她流着泪，痛心地责备自已不该给他吃变了质的食物。
• Eileen Chang wrote tragedies, not because she liked lamentations. In tragedy she hoped to find beauty, and in beauty she hoped to find value of human life.
  她写小说一定要写悲剧，不是因为她想哀叹人世的悲凉，而是因为她希望从悲剧中找到美，从美中看到生活的价值。