complain
英 [kəm'pleɪn]
美 [kəm'plen]
助記提示
1、com- "intensive prefix" + -plain-.
2、originally "beat the breast, lament (by beating the breast)". => 抱怨，訴苦，發牢騷。
3、成語“捶胸頓足”形象地詮釋了詞根-plain-的引申義，可以說是心有靈犀，有異曲同工之妙。
中文詞源
complain 抱怨com-, 強調。-plag, 擊打，詞源同plague, plangent.指捶胸頓足的，抱怨的。
英文詞源
- complain
- complain: [14] Complain goes back to the Latin in verb plangere, source also of English plangent. This was formed on a prehistoric base *plak- (from which we also get plankton), and it originally meant ‘hit’. Its meaning developed metaphorically through ‘beat one’s breast’ to ‘lament’, and in medieval Latin it was combined with the intensive prefix com- to produce complangere. When it entered English via Old French complaindre it still meant ‘lament’, and although this sense had died out by about 1700, traces of it remain in ‘complain of’ a particular illness. Complaint [14] came from Old French complainte.
=> plangent, plankton - complain (v.)
- late 14c., "find fault, lament," from stem of Old French complaindre "to lament" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *complangere, originally "to beat the breast," from Latin com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + plangere "to strike, beat the breast" (see plague (n.)). Older sense of "lament" died out 17c. Related: Complained; complaining.
雙語例句
- 1. If you're not satisfied with the life you're living, don't just complain. Do something about it.
- 對於現況的不滿，不能隻是抱怨，要有勇氣作出改變。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
- 2. Faculty members complain that their students are unprepared to do college-level work.
- 學院的老師們抱怨說他們的學生還很不適應大學的課業。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He came to complain about the volume of the music.
- 他過來抱怨音樂的音量太高了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. People usually complain about having to deal with too much bureaucracy.
- 人們經常抱怨不得不應付太多的繁文縟節。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. If you are not happy about a repair, go back and complain.
- 如果你對修理效果不滿意，可以再找他們投訴。
來自柯林斯例句