词组 | weep |
释义 | weep The past tense and past participle of weep is wept: • ... when winter wept its damp upon the panes — Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts, 1941 • ... how you had mourned for me, and wept for me —Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853 (OED) A variant form, weeped, shows up once in a great while in reputable writing: • All the way in she weeped and wailed —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 24 Feb. 1962 • He talked of how his brother ... had weeped over his loss —Michael Goodwin, N.Y. Times, 4 Oct. 1982 Weeped, however, is far too rare to be judged a standard variant. Use wept. |
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