Tom buried his head among his pillows, murmuring plaintively, "Alack, it was no dream!"

汤姆把头埋在枕头里，伤心地低声说：“咳，这不是梦！”

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Birds cry plaintively before they die, men speak kindly in the presence of death.

鸟之将死，其鸣也哀；人之将死，其言也善。

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"Why? What did I do wrong?" he asks plaintively.

“为什么？是因为我过去做错了什么吗？”他忧伤地问道。

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They ask plaintively: With extremists on both sides, how we can have civilized discourse and compromise?

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"I'm cold, " I plaintively expressed, more than once, but each time my obvious constitutional weakness was met with strict disapproval.

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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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