1
keen over/for sb/sth
The family keened over the loss of their beloved grandfather.
家人哀悼他们深爱的祖父的去世。
恸哭；哀悼；哭丧
keening — present participle of keen
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恸哭；哀悼；哭丧
to wail in grief; to lament or mourn, especially at a funeral
The family keened over the loss of their beloved grandfather.
家人哀悼他们深爱的祖父的去世。
发出恸哭
To utter a keen.
发出大声哀号或无言的哭喊
To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
用言语表达悲伤
express grief verbally
哀悼
To mourn.
keen
Base
原形
keens
3rd person
第三人称单数
keening
-ing
现在分词
keened
Past
过去式
keened
Past participle
过去分词
She keens at funerals.
她在葬礼上痛哭哀悼。
The mourners keened all night.
哀悼者们整夜痛哭。
They have keened for hours.
他们已经痛哭了几小时。
规则动词，表示哀悼时痛哭。
The women keened loudly at the funeral.
妇女们在葬礼上大声哀嚎。
She keened for her lost child.
她为失去的孩子痛哭。
They keened together in grief.
他们一起悲痛地哭诉。
The family keened over the loss of their beloved grandfather.
家人哀悼他们深爱的祖父的去世。
She keened her husband's death for many years.
她哀悼她丈夫的去世多年。
Not this
She keened her lost son.
Use this
She keened for her lost son.
动词'keen'是不及物动词，不能直接接宾语，需加介词'for'或'over'表示哀悼的对象。
Not this
They keened on the dead.
Use this
They keened over the dead.
动词'keen'表示哀悼时，常用介词'over'或'for'，而非'on'。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
对着（死者/遗体）哀号痛哭
At the funeral, the mourners keened over the coffin.
葬礼上，送葬者对着棺材哀号痛哭。
因悲伤而恸哭
He stood beside the grave, keening in grief.
他站在墓旁，悲痛地恸哭。
大声恸哭；放声哀号
The old woman keened loudly as the grave was filled.
坟墓填土时，那位老妇人放声哀号。
为她失去的一切恸哭，一遍又一遍地重复着
In Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, this phrase describes a Geat woman keening her losses at the funeral.
在谢默斯·希尼翻译的《贝奥武甫》中，这句话描写了一位耶阿特妇女在葬礼上为失去的亲人恸哭。
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联想：kin（亲属）与 keen 同音，亲人离世时恸哭哀悼。
语域：formal 常见场景：literary prose、historical accounts of mourning 作动词时，keen 通常表示“恸哭、哀悼”，多用于文学或历史叙述中，比较正式，口语中不常见。
These words all rhyme with 'keen' (/kin/), ending in the same /-in/ sound. Beware of lookalikes that do not rhyme: 'kin' (/kɪn/) and 'been' (often /bɪn/ in British English) have a different vowel sound.
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