gripe
gripe 英 [graɪp] 美 [ɡraɪp]
n. 发牢骚；肠绞痛 vt. 绞痛；握紧；惹恼 vi. 抱怨，发牢骚；肠绞痛
进行时:griping 过去式:griped 过去分词:griped 第三人称单数:gripes 名词复数:gripes
- The word gripe, as both noun and verb, refers to a minor complaint. Why gripe about the size of the portions when the food is so awful?
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- n. 发牢骚；肠绞痛
- vt. 绞痛；握紧；惹恼
- vi. 抱怨，发牢骚；肠绞痛
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1. The host generally pays, and no one needs to hear you gripe about appetizer prices or shrimp count.
主人通常都会支付账单，没人想要听到你抱怨关于开胃菜的价格或者小虾的个数。
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2. A common gripe I hear from developers is that a game has a really greatconcept or aesthetic, but that the user interface (UI) is lousy.
我最常从开发者那里听到的抱怨就是，这个游戏真的很有内容，或者画面真的很棒，但就是UI糟糕了点。
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3. You have two choices – you can complain and gripe and make everyone around you miserable, or you can suck it up and do the best job you’re able.
这时，你有两个选择，一个是愤慨抱怨，让自己周围的人跟着痛苦；或者你可以顺应命运尽自己能力把工作做好。
- gripe (n.) late 14c., "a fast hold, clutch, grasp," from gripe (v.). From c. 1600 as "cramp, pain in the bowels" (earlier of pangs of grief, etc., 1540s). Figurative sense of "a complaint" is by 1934.
- gripe (v.) c. 1200, "to clutch, seize firmly," from Old English gripan "grasp at, lay hold, attack, take, seek to get hold of," from Proto-Germanic *gripan (source also of Old Saxon gripan, Old Norse gripa, Dutch grijpen, Gothic greipan, Old High German grifan, German greifen "to seize"), from PIE root *ghreib- "to grip" (source also of Lithuanian griebiu, griebti "to seize"). Figurative sense of "complain, grouse" is first attested 1932, probably from earlier meaning "produce a gripping pain in the bowels" (c. 1600; compare belly-ache). Related: Griped; griping.
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