汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 痛哭流涕
痛哭流涕
weeping bitter tears
涕 Tears / Describe the extreme sadness
尽情哭泣﹐双泪长流。常形容痛心悲愤或伤心到极点。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

事情早已发生,痛哭流涕也于事无补。

There's no point wailing about something that happened so long ago.

在他下葬的那天,我像个孩子一样痛哭流涕

At his grave today, I cried like a baby.

她的丈夫把她埋在桧树下,为她痛哭流涕

Her husband buried her under the juniper-tree, and wept bitterly for her.

他倒在地上,在冰冷的大理石上吻了几下,痛哭流涕

He fell to the ground and, covering the cold marble with kisses, burst into bitter tears.

他们来到一户叫陈澄的家中,见全家人正痛哭流涕

They came to a house in which lived a man named Chen Cheng and his family. The whole family was crying.

他们一齐倒在地上痛哭流涕。那哀告求饶的惨景简直目不忍睹。

They flung themselves down upon the ground and wept, imploring for mercy in a way that was dreadful to behold.

他看着在他面前痛哭流涕的我的母亲,艰难地咽了口唾沫。

He swallowed hard as he watched my mother weeping in front of him.

如果连这枚草簪都无法拥有,我们怎能不痛哭流涕呢?

If we couldn't have the hairpin, how can we do not burst into tears?

有了后见之明,它鼓励我去体验浪漫的爱情,如同爱情是缠绵悱恻,挥之不去的。即便是在轻浮的开始直到痛哭流涕的末端也是如此。

With hindsight, it encouraged me to experience romance as something haunted, even at its giddy beginning, by a teary ending.

有了后见之明,它鼓励我去体验浪漫的爱情,如同爱情是缠绵悱恻,挥之不去的。即便是在轻浮的开始直到痛哭流涕的末端也是如此。这可能成为一个自我实现的预言。

With hindsight, it encouraged me to experience romance as something haunted, even at its giddy beginning, by a teary ending. And maybe that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.