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Lamentation is deep sadness, or something that expresses it — a cry, a song, a long outpouring of grief. It is a heavy, old, often literary or biblical word. You may read of lamentation after a disaster, or of the Book of Lamentations. In ordinary talk people more often say grief, mourning, or simply that someone was in tears. Though actually, a lamentation can be the feeling inside or the thing made of that feeling, such as a poem or a public wailing. It is much stronger than a complaint or a sigh.
哀嘆、悲慟（聖經書名〈耶利米哀歌〉的 Lamentations 譯作「哀歌」）
組成Recorded since 1375, from Middle English lamentacioun, from Middle French lamentation and Latin lāmentātiō (“wailing”), from lāmentor, from lāmentum (“a wail”), itself from a Proto-Indo-European root *leh₂- (“to howl”), probably imitating the sound. It replaced Old English cwiþan. By the pieces you can still see: lament + -ation.
同家族的字
- lamentthe shorter noun and verb for showing deep sadness
- lamentablethe adjective from the same family
原始詞典資料5 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。
lamentationnoun/ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/
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The act of lamenting.
- About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
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A sorrowful cry; a lament.
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Specifically, mourning.
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lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
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A group of swans.
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。