a long and mournful complaint; "a jeremiad against any form of government"
A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.
例句与用法
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I think you should have some writers write some jeremiads for him 我想你需要一些给他写哀婉的故事的人
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" is jean - claude wippler s jeremiad on the misery of present - day installation practices 包含有关于他的一些部署方面的工程的信息。
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That adds to the cost of extracting oil , because more engineers and more complex machinery are needed to exploit it ? butthe end of easy oil is a far remove from the jeremiads of peak - oilers 要开采它们需要投入更多的工程家和更复杂的机械,这都增加了开采石油的成本? ?但即使容易开采的石油告完,也和石油拐点论者的悲惨故事相距甚远。
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That adds to the cost of extracting oil , because more engineers and more complex machinery are needed to exploit it ? butthe end of easy oil is a far remove from the jeremiads of peak - oilers 要开采它们需要投入更多的工程家和更复杂的机械,这都增加了开采石油的成本? ?但即使容易开采的石油告完,也和石油峰值论者的悲惨故事相距甚远。