moan

英 [məʊn] 美 [moʊn]

• n. 呻吟声；抱怨声
• vt. 抱怨；呻吟
• vi. 呻吟；抱怨

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]呻吟声

   a soft low sound of pain or grief

2. [C]抱怨

   a complaint, expressed in a suffering discontented voice

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. 呻吟; 悲叹

   utter moans; say with moans

2. vi. & vt. 抱怨

   complain about (sth or doing sth), sometimes without cause

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 萧萧声，呼啸（声）
2. 呻吟（声），呜咽声，号
3. <口>悲叹（声），不满，发牢骚，抱怨（声），埋怨，悲伤

v. 动词

1. 发出萧萧声，呼啸（尤指风）
2. 呻吟，呜咽，哀泣，哼叫，以呻吟声说出，似呻吟般地叙述
3. 抱怨（有时没原因地），悲叹，埋怨，叹息，诉冤

英英释义

Noun:

1. an utterance expressing pain or disapproval

Verb:

1. indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure;

   "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"
   "The ancient door soughed when opened"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Each time she moved her head she let out a moan.
   她每转动一下头，就发出一声呻吟。
2. A moan escaped the badly wounded soldier.
   那个重伤员不禁呻吟了一声。
3. His constant moan is that no one understands him.
   他老是抱怨没有人理解他。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. She moaned her misfortunes to anyone who would listen.
   她向任何乐于听的人哀叹命运不济。
2. "I'm so stiff I can't move," Jane moaned.
   "我浑身发僵，动弹不得，"简呻吟着说。

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. Suddenly he began to moan in his sleep.
   突然他在睡梦中开始呻吟。
2. What is he moaning about?
   他在发什么牢骚？

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. From time to time there was a moan of pain from the sick man.
   病人不时发出一声声痛苦的呻吟。
2. They get fed up with her moans.
   她的抱怨令他们感到厌烦。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. The sick woman moaned.
   那位生病的女人在呻吟。
2. The wounded man moaned ceaselessly.
   那个伤员呻吟不止。
3. The old woman moaned in her sleep.
   那老妇人在睡梦中呻吟着。
4. The wind moaned through the trees.
   风呜咽着穿过树林。
5. Stop moaning; you really have nothing to complain about.
   别悲叹了,你真的没什么好抱怨的。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The prisoner moaned a prayer for help.
   囚犯呻吟着祈求帮助。

S+～+that-clause

1. She wept and moaned that her husband had abandoned her.
   她哭泣着悲叹丈夫遗弃了她。
2. She's always moaning that she has too much work to do.
   她总是抱怨她有太多的事要做。

经典引文

• And oft I heard the tender dove, In firry woodlands making moan.

  出自： Tennyson

• She..bitterly moaned the fickleness of her Matilda.

  出自： Thackeray

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

moan about (v.+prep.)

〈非正〉为…抱怨 complain about (sth or doing sth), sometimes without cause
moan about sth/v-ing
You're always moaning about money.

你总是为钱而抱怨。
What are you moaning about this time?

这次你有什么可抱怨的?
Cage is always moaning about not being treated equally.

凯奇总是抱怨别人对她不公。

moan out (v.+adv.)

发出呻吟声 groan a sound out
moan sth ⇔ out
Facer moaned out a sound and then closed his eyes.

费塞呻吟了一声,然后就闭上了眼睛。

moan over (v.+prep.)

就…而悲叹〔哀悼〕 say with moans over sth
moan over sth
They were moaning over the death of their father.

他们正在哀悼他们的父亲。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• emit〔let out〕 a moan 发出呻吟
• silence the moan 使呻吟声沉寂

～+介词

• a moan from 从…传来的呻吟声
• a moan of… 的呻吟声

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• moan agonizingly 极其痛苦地呻吟
• moan ceaselessly 不停地呻吟
• moan disconsolately 不快地悲叹
• moan grievously 伤心地悲叹
• moan tragically 悲伤地呻吟
• moan out 发出呻吟声

～+介词

• moan about 就…抱怨
• moan for the dead 哀悼死者
• moan over 就…悲叹〔哀悼〕

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. moan的基本意思是“呻吟”“悲叹”,指发出一种低沉的、拉长的、含糊不清的声音,以表明身心遭受痛苦,也可引申指“痛苦”“抱怨”等。
2. moan既可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,可接名词、代词或以that引导的从句作宾语; 用作不及物动词时,常与about, for, over等词连用,表示“为…而抱怨〔悲叹〕”。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

moan, groan

• 这组词都可表示“呻吟,抱怨”,有时可互换。它们的区别是:groan可表示反对的“哼声”或对非议、烦恼等的“抱怨”; moan除了作“呻吟,呜咽”解外,还可指因悲哀而发出“悲叹”“抱怨”,即“哀怨”。

近反义词

【近义词】

• groan
• grumble
• lament