gripe
抱怨,怨气,怨言,牢骚
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Definitions
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griped, grip·ing.
- : Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
- : to suffer pain in the bowels.
- : Nautical. to tend to come into the wind; to be ardent.
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griped, grip·ing.
- : Informal. to annoy or irritate: His tone of voice gripes me.
- : to produce pain in as if by constriction.
- : to distress, afflict, or oppress: poverty that gripes and pinches us.
- : Nautical. to secure to a deck or against a pudding boom on davits.
- : Archaic. to seize and hold firmly with the hand, claws, etc.; grasp; clutch.to greedily take possession of and hold tightly:The miser gripes his money for fear of losing it.
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The caveats above apply, but other than a few minor gripes that I mention above, I cannot fault this laptop.
Fellow critics, like Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk and Decider’s Meghan O’Keefe, have posited that Ted Lasso’s weekly release could be to blame for the spike in these gripes.
My only small gripe with the rear controls is that they’re not visible to the user while the mic is in use, so unless you’ve memorized each switch’s location, you need to pivot the mic or physically move your body to gain access.
Attacked by sadistic rustics with a social media gripe, the owner of the Facebook-like ConFab tells Pickett that if he dies in the wilderness at least “it’ll go viral.”
It would be ludicrous to gripe about Louis-Dreyfus winning again for her work in Veep.
My big gripe with the old TV shows was their reliance on predictable formulas.
Later, another senior NCO chased me down the hall to gripe about how my pants met my boots.
Well, I have a gripe with the pope, was a bit disgusted, and was struck by his radical views.
The gripe is much older than the bloggers and tweeters who are its latest targets.
Peer Khan uttered the fatal words, and Ghuffoor Khan wrestled out his last agony under my never-failing gripe.
The pincers gripe, the pliers handle; the one is like the closed hand, the other like the fingers.