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词汇 repining
释义 repining
present participle ofrepine
repine
verb[ I ]
 literaryuk /rɪˈpaɪn/ us /rɪˈpaɪn/
to feel sad or complain about something, especially a bad situation: 苦恼,发愁;埋怨,发牢骚
She was alone and unloved, but she did not repine.她孤苦伶仃,没有人爱,但她却没有报怨。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
wish you had never been bornidiom
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom

Examples of repining


repining

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


It is no good repining about the past.
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Surely that person is likely to spend his sentence in prison repining the fact that we gave him this right and that he ill-advisedly chose to exercise it.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
What do you suppose caused all the dining and repining?
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