| 正面 | 1870.complain 英 [kəm'pleɪn]美 [kəm'plen]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、com- "intensive prefix" + -plain-.2、originally "beat the breast, lament (by beating the breast)". => 抱怨，诉苦，发牢骚。3、成语“捶胸顿足”形象地诠释了词根-plain-的引申义，可以说是心有灵犀，有异曲同工之妙。vi. 投诉；发牢骚；诉说vt. 抱怨；控诉 例句： 1. If you're not satisfied with the life you're living, don't just complain. Do something about it.对于现况的不满，不能只是抱怨，要有勇气作出改变。 complain 抱怨com-, 强调。-plag, 击打，词源同plague, plangent.指捶胸顿足的，抱怨的。 complaincomplain: [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, planktoncomplain (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." |