plaintively [
'pleintivli]
ad. 可怜地
悲伤地
- Then Mr. Torkells, 38, asked plaintively: “This is for the young, right? I don't even want to sleep on my sister's couch.
接著,三十八岁的托克斯先生哀怨地问:「不过,这是年轻人的把戏吧!我甚至不想睡在我妹妹的沙发上。」 - Just as Shiki is about to open the next door, for a moment he sees the next room full of freshly severed cat heads, mewling plaintively at him.
就在志贵要把下一扇门打开的时候,在一瞬间他看见下一个房间放满了刚刚切下来的猫头,正向他哀伤地啜泣。 - The guy who complains to editors that an article is too tough and too tedious, that he doesn't understand it, and who plaintively cries, "Why can't we have more features for the beginner?"
那些常常向编辑抱怨文章太难太枯燥看不懂的人,还有那些可怜兮兮地叫嚷“爲什麽不多写些适合初学者的文章呢?”
plaintively[ adv ]
in a plaintive manner
<adv.all>
the last note of the song rang out plaintively
Plaintive \Plain"tive\, a. [F. plaintif. See {Plaintiff}, n.]
1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. --Dryden.
2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. ``The
most plaintive ditty.'' --Landor.
※ -- {Plain"tive*ly}, adv. --
{Plain"tive*ness}, n.