1 a song, poem, or other piece of writing that expresses sadness about someone's death:
The whole play can be interpreted as a lament for lost youth.
3 an expression of sadness over something, or a complaint:
Pastoral laments the gap between representation and its imagined subject, and in a sense its subject is this gap.
As the courtiers' lyric laments are realized in action, as their desires are reflected in another, they are simultaneously negated.
There were constantly laments about ministerial income and the" poverty, indifference and unappreciated labour" of many men.
The underlying message of these various laments is that the ruler has little autonomy and even less power.
The poet lamented the administration's lack of sartorial wisdom.
She lamented that she had not had much leisure time when she was younger.
Thus, though one laments the omissions in this regard, they are perhaps understandable, relative to the purposes the authors had in mind.
They lamented lack of time for research and fieldwork.
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對…感到悲痛,對…表示失望,痛惜, 輓歌, 悼詩…
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对…感到悲痛,对…表示失望,痛惜, 挽歌, 悼诗…
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llorar, lamentar, lamento…
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lamentar(-se), lamento…
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yakınmak, dert yanmak, şikâyet etmek…
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deplorer, lamenter, lamentation…
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oplakávat, naříkat, žalozpěv…
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beklage, klagesang, klage…
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