repining
/ri-pahyn/US // rɪˈpaɪn //UK // (rɪˈpaɪn) //
悔恨,悔过书,悔改,悔悟
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v.无主动词 verb
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re·pined, re·pin·ing.
- : to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
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Examples
But, fortunately, they had scant time for repining, and there is nothing like active occupation to banish useless brooding.
He has lost that spirit of repining and sarcasm, and lives as if he had an object.'
He endured without repining the bent back, the sightless eyes, and the creaking joints incident to over-maturity.
And they learned to accept the inequalities of life without repining insolence.
I prepared myself for dismissal, and hoped that, when the hour arrived, I should submit without repining.
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