litany

• n.長く退屈な声明；継続的な祈り

ラテン語のlitania、ギリシャ語のlite（祈る、懇願する）から。litanyから派生。

litany (n.)

c. 1200, from Old French letanie and directly from Medieval Latin letania, Late Latin litania (source also of Spanish letania, Italian litania), from Greek litaneia "litany, an entreating," from lite "prayer, supplication, entreaty," of unknown origin. From notion of monotonous enumeration of petitions in Christian prayer services came generalized sense of "repeated series," early 19c., borrowed from French.

For those who know the Greek words, a litany is a series of prayers, a liturgy is a canon of public service; the latter in practice includes prayer, but does not say so. [Fowler]

1. a litany of complaints

べらべら文句を言う

2.She remained in the doorway，listening to his litany of complaints against her client.

彼女は入り口に立って、彼が彼女の取引先に文句を言っているのを聞いた。

3.Dr.Middleton bowed to the litany .

ミデルトン博士はこの祈りに耳を傾けた。

4.The mournful litany of disease is caused by sewage.

一連の不愉快なことはすべて生活排水によるものだ。

5.We heard the whole litany of their complaints.

彼らの冗長な愚痴をすべて聞いた。