Plaintive

(n.) Repining; complaining; lamenting.

(n.) Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.

编辑:沃伦

• Mr. Snagsby, having said this in a very plaintive manner, throws in a cough of general application to fill up all the blanks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Little Georgette still piped her plaintive wail, appealing to me by her familiar termMinnie, Minnie, me very poorly! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• A pitiful and plaintive look, with which she had begun to regard him when she was still extremely young, was perhaps a part of this discovery. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She was not pretty and looked weak and poor, but she had a plaintive and a good face, though it was still a little wild. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She turned back, fixing her plaintive eyes on Gerty. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Never however see the plaintive take a pick-axe or any other wepping far from it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• You seem unhappy, Mr. Jingle,' said the lady, in a plaintive voice. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Thinks it was the plaintive's air in which that report originatinin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The plaintive wail which succeeded the passionate roar went to Meg's heart, and she ran up to say beseechingly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The first half of that space of her life was only just accomplished, when her pitiful and plaintive look saw her father a widower. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The boy had naturally a low, plaintive voice, which in his dour moods rose scarcely above a lady's whisper. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was a great change from Captain Swosser to Professor Dingo, she resumed with a plaintive smile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• As those words were whispered to me, the plaintive music ceased. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• As I laid my hand on the door opposite, I heard a few plaintive chords struck on the piano in the room within. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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