plaintively

基本解釋

“Why does God not kill me straight away?” he wrote plaintively. The end came soon.
他哀怨地寫道：“上帝怎么不讓我立刻死去？”
Together we consumed our share of steak, bacon, and processed grains before he asked me rather plaintively one day whether I could do something good with brown rice.
我們一同分享牛排、培根，和精制谷物，有一天，他非常之哀哀怨怨地問(wèn)我，是否愿意行行好試下吃糙米。
As one friend said plaintively, "Parents need special time, too."
正如一個(gè)朋友哀怨地說(shuō)：“家長(zhǎng)也需要獨(dú)處的時(shí)間。”

They ask plaintively: With extremists on both sides, how we can have civilized discourse and compromise?
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That created its own drama — with builders, protesting sky-high interest rates, plaintively mailing two by fours to the Fed.
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Why should Turkey implement difficult reforms to meet European standards, some ask plaintively, if EU membership will not be forthcoming in return?
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