wails

英 [weɪlz]

美 [weɪlz]

v.  (因悲伤或疼痛)哭号，恸哭; 大声呼叫; 哀号; 高声抱怨; 发出长而高的声音; 呼啸
n.  (疼痛或悲伤时发出的)号啕，哀号
wail的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 哀号;悲鸣;恸哭
  If someonewails, they make long, loud, high-pitched cries which express sorrow or pain.
  1. The women began to wail in mourning.
     女人们开始哀哭起来。
  2. ...a mother wailing for her lost child.
     因丧子而痛哭的母亲
  3. Wailis also a noun.
     
  4. Wails of grief were heard as visitors filed past the site of the disaster.
     来访者列队走过灾难现场时听见到处都是哀号声。
• VERB 哀诉;哀号着说
  If youwailsomething, you say it in a loud, high-pitched voice that shows that you are unhappy or in pain.
  1. 'Now look what you've done!' Shirley wailed...
     “看看你干的好事！”雪莉哭诉道。
  2. Primrose, stupefied by tiredness, began to wail that she was hungry.
     普丽姆罗丝因疲惫而显得有些迟钝，开始哭着说她饿了。
• VERB (警报器等)尖叫，尖啸
  If something such as a siren or an alarmwails, it makes a long, loud, high-pitched sound.
  1. Police cars, their sirens wailing, accompanied the lorries...
     警车护送着大卡车，一路警笛长鸣。
  2. The wind wailed outside the closed windows.
     紧闭的窗户外狂风呼啸。
  3. Wailis also a noun.
     
  4. The wail of the bagpipe could be heard in the distance.
     远远地能听到风笛的呜咽。

双语例句

• While the Contessa, in a counter-medley, wails that
  而伯爵夫人却一个人落落寡欢，在那儿哀叹
• When the nurse tries to take the baby away to clean it, the baby wails and will not stop until it is returned to its mum.
  当护士想要把它带走去清洗，它就开始哭叫，不回到母亲身边不罢休。
• A quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.
  然后，突然转变成女性神经质的眼泪和哭泣，男主人只得千方百计地来安慰她。
• The Women's Tennis Association ( WTA) has confirmed that off-putting wails will no longer be tolerated and that umpires will in the future be equipped with grunt-ometers to ensure the maximum levels are not breached.
  女子网球联合会已证实，将不再容忍令人厌恶的尖叫，将来裁判员会配备尖叫测量计，确保运动员的尖叫声不超过最大限定音量。
• TRACE compounds may get lost due to absorption on the container wails, or TRACE compounds from the wails may contaminate the stored sample.
  由于吸附在容器壁可能会导致痕量化合物的损失，或者来自壁上的痕量化合物可能会污染所保存的样品。
• The wails of the siren woke the people out of their dreams.
  汽笛的啸鸣把人们从睡梦中惊醒。
• This was the time Timmy usually woke for a bottle, but there were no cries of hunger, no wails.
  往常这个时候，蒂米会醒来要奶瓶吃奶，可此刻没有传来蒂米饥饿的哭声或烦躁不安的叫喊。
• By the means of a hydraulic displacement control mechanism made by the authors, centrifuge model tests on lateral pressure of wails retaining compacted clayey backfill, which displacement can be controlled, have been conducted.
  笔者利用自制的一套位移控制液压装置做了11组位移可控式压实粘性填土档土墙土压力的离心模型试验。
• They rush to defend any breach in the wails.
  他们赶着去防卫城墙上出现的任何缺口。
• If~ ( 233) pa sorption on polyethylene tubes wails from HCl solutions is least.
  若~（233）Pa的HCL溶液在聚乙烯、ABS树脂和玻璃试管中存放较长的时间（24h），聚乙烯试管壁对~（233）Pa的吸附量最少。