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词汇 bemoaning
释义 bemoaning
present participle ofbemoan
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
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complaining
be/go on at someoneidiom
bellyaching
bemoan
bewail
brouhaha
bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
carping
clamour
grizzle
make noisesidiom
mutter
nag
pardon
peep
remonstrate
representation
start on at someone
unreported
vituperation
whiner

Examples of bemoaning


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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The author was consulted by a married woman with late-stage cancer who was bemoaning the fact that her husband 'cannot boil an egg'.
To claim that only situational effects are real while bemoaning participants' dispositional lack of insight into this important truth is incoherent.
While bemoaning putatively evaporating state authority, these texts often fail to reassert the values of the broad social and political left.
There were no legions of painters bemoaning the lack of tools to realise their visions or calling for engineers to assist them in doing so.
Despite bemoaning these deficiencies, political parties continued to favour partisan loyalty over competence in judicial appointments.
For a country in which historians spend a good deal of time bemoaning the lack of source material, this volume shows what is available given patient searching.
We are always bemoaning our climate, as though we never get sunshine and beautiful sunny days in the summer.
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There is no point in bemoaning the law.
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There is no point in bemoaning lost opportunities.
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I read an interesting account this week of one chairman with £90,000 a year bemoaning his fate because of the heavy taxation he has to meet.
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I wish that industry would sometimes concentrate more on the new opportunities and less on bemoaning the loss of the old ones.
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Shipowners are bemoaning the fact that having got their vessels to the southern hemisphere they cannot bring them back even at a loss.
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These figures must be borne in mind if we are to put a stop to this unfortunate trend, instead of just bemoaning the situation.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is no use quibbling about whether the central rate is right, or bemoaning the fact that interest rates are too high.
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They went straight from saying that there was nothing in the speech to bemoaning the fact that it contained too much.
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