complain

vi. 投诉；发牢骚；诉说

vt. 抱怨；控诉

vi.

抱怨，诉苦；申诉，控诉，抗议；

vt.

诉说，申诉，控告[后面常跟从句]；

变形

过去式：complained过去分词：complained现在分词：complaining第三人称单数：complains

双语释义

vt. & vi. 抱怨; 诉苦 say that sth is wrong; find fault

英英释义

complain[ kəm'plein ]

v.

express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

"My mother complains all day"

同义词：kickplainsound offquetchkvetch

make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge

"The plaintiff's lawyer complained that he defendant had physically abused his client"

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

complain bitterly痛苦地诉说

complain constantly经常地抱怨

complain fearfully可怕地抱怨

complain honestly诚实地抱怨

complain incessantly不停地抱怨

complain loudly大声地抱怨

～+介词

complain about〔at, of〕抱怨,诉苦

complain of one's bad memory抱怨记忆力不好

complain to向…抱怨

词组短语

complain about抱怨

complain of n. 抱怨；抗议

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“抱怨、埋忽”的意思，其区别是：

grumble指因对处境、待遇不满或其他个人因素而愤愤不平地向他人诉苦或自言自语。

complain侧重因对处境不满、待遇不公或自己有痛苦等而向别人诉说、埋怨。

murmur多指因不满某人或某事而背着人自言自语地发怨言。

双语例句

用作不及物动词(vi.)

The tourist complained that the room was too dirty.
游客抱怨说房间太脏了。

She complained to me about his rudeness.
他向我抱怨他的卤莽。

He will complain to the police that I struck him.
这人要到警察局去控告我打他。

The patient is complaining of acute earache.
病人说耳部剧痛。

权威例句

complain

complain: [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, plankton

complain (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.

1. He did nothing but complain.

他除了抱怨以外，什么也没做。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. If goods are not well made you should complain to the manufacturer.

如果货物质量不好,则理应向制造商提出控诉。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. He does nothing but complain / All he does is complain.

他只会发牢骚.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. She did nothing except complain while she was here.

她在这里时除了抱怨还是抱怨。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

5. It was unheard-of for anyone to complain.

从未听说过有人投诉的事.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. Have you any complain(s) to make?

你有什么不满意的事未说吗？

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

7. I shall complain to the management.

我要找管理人员去提意见。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. We must replace the error message with more robust software that prevents error conditions from arising, rather than having the program merely complain when things aren’t going precisely the way it wants.

我们必须用更健壮的软件取代错误消息，防止错误产生。 而不是让程序在事情与其预料的不同时，只会发牢骚。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

9. Mrs. Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of.

贝内特太太有多少牢骚要发，又有多少苦要诉。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

10. Our point is not to complain about the intricacies of driving, but rather to distinguish between two types of actions we take to accomplish our daily tasks.

我们的意思不是抱怨开车复杂，而是要区分完成日常任务时需要采取的两种动作类型。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓