plaintive

英 [ˈpleɪntɪv]

美 [ˈpleɪntɪv]

adj.  (声音)悲伤的，哀怨的

IELTSGRE

Collins.1 / BNC.20476 / COCA.19048

牛津词典

adj.

• （声音）悲伤的，哀怨的
  sounding sad, especially in a weak complaining way
  1. a plaintive cry/voice
     凄楚的哭泣 / 声音

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 悲伤的；哀怨的
  Aplaintivesound or voice sounds sad.
  1. They lay on the firm sands, listening to the plaintive cry of the seagulls...
     他们躺在硬实的沙地上，听着海鸥的哀鸣。
  2. Her voice was small and plaintive.
     她的声音微弱而哀伤。

英英释义

adj

• expressing sorrow
  Synonym:mournful

双语例句

• He concluded his plaintive melody, a very simple performance, demanding no great skill;
  他弹完了忧郁的旋律，他的弹奏非常简单，也不需要很大的技巧；
• I thought back to those plaintive cliff top exhortations, Just come here and realise your dreams, and wondered what Teresa Teng would make of it all.
  我又想起悬崖上大喇叭里的那些充满哀伤语气的劝词：到我们这边来，你会梦想成真，不知邓丽君再世，会如何理解这一切？
• Her voice was a little plaintive.
  她的声音有点儿伤感。
• They lay on the firm sands, listening to the plaintive cry of the seagulls
  他们躺在硬实的沙地上，听着海鸥的哀鸣。
• I fell in love with the subtly plaintive timbre of the Qiang flute.
  我喜欢上了羌笛那略带哀怨的音色。
• He wrote to Connie with the same plaintive melancholy note as ever, sometimes witty, and touched with a queer, sexless affection.
  他用着平时那种不平而忧郁的语调和康妮通信，有时写得很精彩。但总是渲染着一种奇异的无性爱的爱情。
• Somewhere in the audience an old woman's voice began plaintive wail.
  观众席里，一位老太太伤心地哭起来。
• She had a plaintive way of saying," When Papa was rich we did so-and-so," which was very touching, and her long words were considered'perfectly elegant'by the girls.
  她说“爸爸有钱的那个时候我们如何如何”这句话时，悲哀婉转，令人感动，她拖长了的发音也被姑娘们视为“绝顶优雅”。
• Her voice was small and plaintive.
  她的声音微弱而哀伤。
• Regardless cold wind array and the cold rain is plaintive, I also hear my warm heart sounds clearly sincere beating.
  无论寒风阵阵冷雨凄切，我也分明听到我温暖的心音真挚如初。