plaintive
plaintive 英 [ˈpleɪntɪv] 美 [ˈplentɪv]
adj. 哀伤的；悲哀的
- Plaintive is an adjective for describing someone or something with a pleading, sorrowful, desperate tone. If you have ever heard the plaintive howl of a wolf, then you know what we are getting at here.
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- adj. 哀伤的；悲哀的
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1. There is an unsettling, plaintive tone to Mason's letter, as if he were trying to figure out how he went from trying to change the world to being the public face of a glorified coupon site.
在他的信里有一种令人不安的、悲哀的语调，似乎他自己也没弄明白，自己曾一心想要改变世界，如今却沦为一家声誉日隆的优惠券网站的代言人。
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2. Those few plaintive words summed up how, in a few short months, anorexia had transformed their healthy daughter into a painfully thin shadow of her former self.
那些哀伤的言语总结了厌食症是如何在数个月内让他们健康的女儿成为一个她自己塑造的，痛苦地瘦削的影子。
- plaintive (adj.) late 14c., "lamenting," from Old French plaintif "complaining; wretched, miserable," from plainte (see plaint). Sense of "mournful, sad" first recorded 1570s. Related: Plaintively; plaintiveness.
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