a complaint about something 抱怨;怨言;牢骚 My only gripe about the hotel was the food. 我对这家旅馆唯一不满的是食物。 The main gripe has to be the lack of space for luggage. 主要的不满是行李空间不足。
Word OriginOld English grīpan ‘grasp, clutch’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grijpen, German greifen ‘seize’, also to grip and grope. The current usage, of US origin, dates from the 1930s.