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A jeremiad is a long speech or piece of writing that complains, mourns, and often says that ruin is coming. It is not a short grumble. It has the shape of a warning: we have gone wrong, and bad things will follow if we do not change. Newspapers still use it for a bitter, moralising column. It is a word; you will meet it in essays more than in talk. It is named after the prophet , who wept over his country and said it would fall. Though actually calling someone's speech a jeremiad can be a little — it suggests they go on and on, and that they rather enjoy the dark picture.
長篇哀嘆、悲觀的長篇控訴
組成From French jérémiade, from the name Jérémie (Jeremiah). Named after the biblical prophet Jeremiah, who lamented the moral state of Judah and said the country would fall.
同家族的字
- Jeremiahthe prophet the word is named after
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
jeremiadnoun/ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/
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A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
- Near-synonyms: diatribe, tirade, lamentation, lament, litany; see also Thesaurus:diatribe
- "Father Maguire," he said in the broadest of Cork brogues, without the ghost of a smile on his grave Irish face, "is it a song yez wantin'? Well, thin, it's just a jeremiad I 'd be singin' yez, an' not another song at all, at all."
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。