Lament

(v.)

to feel or express great sadness or disappointment about sb/sth

对...感到悲痛；痛惜；对...表示失望

(syn.)

bemoan, bewail

e.g. In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside.

在那首诗里他对乡村遭到破坏流露出悲哀。

e.g. Strange to relate, this block of stone after tempering had required spiritual understanding. Because all its fellow blocks had been chosen to mend the sky and it alone rejected, it lamented day and night in distress and shame.

谁知此石自经锻炼之后，灵性已通，因见众石俱得补天，独自己无材不堪入选，遂自怨自叹，日夜悲号惭愧。

(n.)

a song, poem or other expression of great sadness for sb who has died or for sth that has ended

挽歌；哀诗；悼词

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