Here Todd Duncan sings "Porgy's Lament" from the Gershwin opera, "Porgy and Bess."

VOA: special.2010.03.07

I think we're taken aback here. We're taken aback by the rude interruption in the otherwise seamless flow of the poet's lament.

在这点上我们被震惊了，被这种粗鲁的打断深深震惊了,否则诗人的悲叹将会天衣无缝的流畅通顺下去。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You have an elegy here, a beautiful and plangent lament for something or someone lost. And we have to ask ourselves, "Could this be a paradise lost?"

它变成了挽歌，一首优美的如泣如诉的挽歌,因为某些东西或某些人消失了，我们不得不问自己，这就是失乐园吗“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There's lyric poetry, there's love poetry, there are proverbs, there are psalms of thanksgiving and lament.

有抒情诗，有爱情诗，有谚语，有感恩，悲叹时的圣咏诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I am so honored and pleased to welcome today to this table Janet Dickerson Vice-President of Campus Life: Janet Dickerson, who is much to many of our lament retiring this year.

今天能请到主管综合事务的副校长,来到这里我很荣幸,欢迎，虽然不舍，但她今年将要退休了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选