lament 復習

Freed journalist Yasuda gives detailed account of Syrian ordeal from capture to release

TOKYO -- For the first time since his late October release, freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda spoke in detail about the three years and four months he spent as a prisoner of an armed group in Syria at the Japan National Press Club here on Nov. 2.

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"I thought that the situation was different from what I'd been told (it would be), and even I'm not sure why I followed them. It was a mistake," Yasuda lamented. That mistake was the beginning of his three years and four months of captivity.

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https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20181103/p2a/00m/0na/016000c

今回取り上げるのは、lament /ləmént/ です。文脈から、「絶望する」と予測しました。以下で確認していきます。

まず、LDOCEで意味を引いてみると、“to express feelings of great sadness about something” や、“to express annoyance or disappointment about something you think is unsatisfactory or unfair” と載っており、『ウィズダム英和辞典』には「嘆き悲しむ、泣き叫ぶ」とありました。

続いて『オックスフォード新英英辞典』で語源を調べてみると、“late Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamenteri, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’.” と定義してありました。ここでは、「安田さんは後悔した」と解釈できそうです。（Otoyo）