cry the blues

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To sing in the style of blues music.
    — "Young people have forgotten how to cry the blues," said Big Bill Broonzy as he lay dying in a dark room above the littered streets of Chicago's Negro South Side.
  2. To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation. broadly,idiomatic
    — "The average citizen gets an extreme emotional delight in ‘crying the blues’ to anyone who might lend an attentive ear."

词形变化

cries the blues present,singular,third-person crying the blues participle,present cried the blues participle,past cried the blues past
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