| 词汇 | gripe |
| 释义 | gripe noun[ C ] informaluk /ɡraɪp/ us /ɡraɪp/ a strong complaint: 抱怨，怨言，牢骚 Her main gripe is that she's not being trained properly.她主要是抱怨自己没有受到很好的培训。 Synonyms beef(COMPLAINT)informal complaint(REPORT OF A PROBLEM) grievance Complaining be/go on at someoneidiom bellyaching bemoan bewail brouhaha bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom carping clamour complain grizzle make noisesidiom mutter nag pardon remonstrate representation start on at someone unreported vituperation whiner gripe verb[ I ] informaluk /ɡraɪp/ us /ɡraɪp/ to complain continuously about something in a way that is annoying: gripe aboutThere's no point griping about the price of things. Synonyms complain moan(COMPLAIN)informaldisapproving Employees also have griped that some 130 of the city's top-paid officials get free downtown parking. Instead of griping about how intolerable this situation is, people should follow your example and just leave. Environmentalists, meanwhile, gripe that junk mail requires some 4 million tons of paper, nearly half of which lands in the trash unopened. Valdez had come face to face with a phenomenon that industry critics have been griping about for years. "Florida ain't ranked in the Top 25, and they're on TV every Saturday," he gripes. Complaining be/go on at someoneidiom bellyaching bemoan bewail brouhaha bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom carping clamour complain grizzle make noisesidiom mutter nag pardon remonstrate representation start on at someone unreported vituperation whiner gripe | American Dictionarygripe noun[ C ] infmlus/ɡrɑɪp/ a strong complaint: My biggest gripe about living here is the hot weather. gripeverb[ I ]us/ɡrɑɪp/ People gripe about doing yard work. Examples of gripegripe My only gripe is that there are few 'general' papers and nothing on numerical modelling and thus the volume is heavily weighted towards case studies. My only gripe was to question the wisdom of placing a technical chapter at the beginning of the book. I have other gripes, but on balance the book is a very worthwhile piece of work. Despite such localized gripes, this is an excellent, and an excellently c conceived and edited, essay collection. This is a minor gripe, in truth, and one that will only find sympathy among vertebrate palaeobiologists with my particular range of interests. Presented with a volume so extensive in its coverage, it would be an unusual reviewer who could not come up with a few gripes. My only gripe with the book is the continuing inclusion of the autistic spectrum disorders under the general term of psychoses by some contributors. These are minor gripes, however. But these are small gripes. Had e-mail not been so widely available, the criticism probably would have not become known outside the company; but the gripes would still have been there. They are not griping about self-interest but expressing deep concern for a profession in which they take pride. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My gripe at times is that it does not represent us internationally as eloquently and efficiently as it should. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not the rôle of a responsible body to turn itself into a sort of gripe factory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are always gripes about the relative pay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not here to make the usual easy gibes about fat cats, or to gripe about the continual price increases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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