la·ment
verb/ləˈment/
/ləˈment/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they lament | /ləˈment/ /ləˈment/ |
| he / she / it laments | /ləˈments/ /ləˈments/ |
| past simple lamented | /ləˈmentɪd/ /ləˈmentɪd/ |
| past participle lamented | /ləˈmentɪd/ /ləˈmentɪd/ |
| -ing form lamenting | /ləˈmentɪŋ/ /ləˈmentɪŋ/ |
- lament something | lament that… | + speech to have or express very sad feelings about somebody/something
对…感到悲恸；痛惜 - In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside.
在那首诗里他对乡村遭到的破坏流露出悲哀。 - She sat alone weeping, lamenting her fate.
她独自一人坐在那儿哭泣，哀叹自己的命运。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLament is used with these nouns as the object:- decline
- fact
- failure
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’. - In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside.