complain
/kəmˈpleɪn/ verbe A2En français : se plaindre, porter plainte
- To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment. · Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.
- To state the presence of something negative; to indicate that one is suffering from something; to report (e.g.) a symptom. · The patient complained of headache, nausea, and joint pain.
- To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge. · They've complained about me to the police again.
- To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel. · the complaining bed-springs
He/she/it complains · Prétérit complained · Participe passé complained · Forme en -ing complaining
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Dans la bibliothèque
The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back.
“I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, “and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear oneself speak—and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground—and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!”
Not that Matthew complained, to be sure; he listened to it all with a wordless smile of enjoyment on his face; Marilla permitted the “chatter” until she found herself becoming too interested in it, whereupon she always promptly quenched Anne by a curt command to hold her tongue.
You can shut me up in a dark, damp dungeon inhabited by snakes and toads and feed me only on bread and water and I shall not complain.
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