plaintively

1. Birds cry plaintively before they die, men speak kindly in the presence of death.
   鸟之将死，其鸣也哀；人之将死，其言也善。
2. 'I'm cold,' I plaintively expressed, more than once, but each time my obvious constitutional weakness was met with strict disapproval.
   我冷，我不止一次哀怨地表示，但弱不禁风的我每次都遭到了严辞拒绝。
3. 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“什麽不多写些适合初学者的文章呢？”
4. I've broken my glasses, he said plaintively.
   我把眼镜打碎了，他懊丧地说。
5. Here they were, regular customers, and she had turned them all down in favour of this comparative stranger "What has he got that we haven't got" demanded, plaintively, the drunkest of the three.
   顾客们到了，她把几个常来的客人弃在一边不管，去应酬这位比较陌生的顾客。“为什么他比我们优先？”三个中喝得最醉的一位哀怨地问道。
6. The scrawny kitten lingered, brushing itself against our legs, and meowing plaintively.
   这只瘦得皮包骨的小猫赖着不走，在我们的脚边蹭来蹭去，叫得挺凄凉的。
7. Mr Obama argued plaintively that he had nursed the economy through the crisis inherited from his predecessor.
   奥巴马哀怨地辩称，他带领美国经济度过了前任留给他的危机。
8. 'Why are you like this?'her husband was asking plaintively.
   “你怎么会成这样的呢？”她丈夫伤心地问。
9. Peering fearfully over the edge of the chasm, he sees deep below the missing lamb, plaintively bleating.
   他害怕的从裂缝边缘往下看，发现丢失的羊羔正在下面悲伤的咩咩叫着。
10. High in the garden tree a cicada was chirping plaintively and drinking dew occasionally without noticing a mantis stalking behind.
    园中有树，其上有蝉。蝉高居悲鸣饮露，不知螳螂在其后也！螳螂委身曲附欲取蝉，而不知黄雀在其傍也！

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1. in a plaintive manner
   1. the last note of the song rang out plaintively