plaintively是什么意思,plaintively怎么读,
英式发音:[ˈpleɪntɪvli] 美式发音:[ˈpleɪntɪvli]
词根:plaintive
adj.plaintive 哀伤的;悲哀的
1.Peering fearfully over the edge of the chasm, he sees deep below the missing lamb, plaintively bleating.
他害怕的从裂缝边缘往下看,发现丢失的羊羔正在下面悲伤的咩咩叫着。
2.Here they were, regular customers, and she had turned them all down in favour of this comparative stranger "What has he got that we haven't got" demanded, plaintively, the drunkest of the three.
顾客们到了,她把几个常来的客人弃在一边不管,去应酬这位比较陌生的顾客。“为什么他比我们优先?”三个中喝得最醉的一位哀怨地问道。
3.Tom buried his head among his pillows, murmuring plaintively, "Alack, it was no dream!"
汤姆把头埋在枕头里,伤心地低声说:“咳,这不是梦!”
4.Birds cry plaintively before they die, men speak kindly in the presence of death.
鸟之将死,其鸣也哀;人之将死,其言也善。
5."Why does God not kill me straight away?" he wrote plaintively. The end came soon.
他哀怨地写道:“上帝怎么不让我立刻死去?”
7.He asked himself plaintively, then arose to respond cleverly and wittily to a clever and witty toast.
然后他站起身来对于一个聪明风趣的祝酒辞作出了聪明风趣的回答。