词汇 | bemoan |
释义 | bemoan verb[ T ] formaluk /bɪˈməʊn/ us /bɪˈmoʊn/ to complain or express sadness about something: 抱怨;悲叹 Researchers at universities are always bemoaning their lack of funds.大学里的研究人员总是抱怨资金不足。 Synonyms bewailliterary deploreformal lament Complaining be/go on at someoneidiom bellyaching bewail brouhaha bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom carping clamour complain grizzle make noisesidiom mutter nag pardon remonstrate representation squawk start on at someone unreported vituperation whiner Examples of bemoanbemoan This comprehensive volume appears at a time when many bemoan the decline of ethical and moral standards. Similarly, several regional lakes are empty of fish, and village hunters repeatedly bemoan having to travel longer and further each year in search of game. The author was consulted by a married woman with late-stage cancer who was bemoaning the fact that her husband 'cannot boil an egg'. There will be those who bemoan the losses the community has incurred, and those who embrace what innovations and new opportunities have to offer. And, tellingly, some writers who bemoaned the booming sale of chromos blamed women, not manufacturers, for their popularity. It appears that the authors bemoaned the arrogance and insensitivity of the relief workers. Coady bemoaned that this art is ' ' as yet, outside of our art world. To claim that only situational effects are real while bemoaning participants' dispositional lack of insight into this important truth is incoherent. Historians across a range of fields bemoan this fragmentation : ' search for synthesis ' could be a shibboleth of the profession. No longer (so the argument goes) must we bemoan the twentieth-century tendency for telephone conversations to drive out written communication. Opponents of medical charities bemoaned the negative effect of free care on the independence, dignity, and self-sufficiency of the poor. Recently in a college magazine a writer bemoaned the ever-presence of cellphones. While bemoaning putatively evaporating state authority, these texts often fail to reassert the values of the broad social and political left. At most, some of us may at times bemoan the excesses of consumer and celebrity culture. Though some contemporaries bemoaned the feminization of public schooling, there should be little doubt that it was not women who defined this institutional structure. 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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