agony
agony 英 [ˈægəni] 美 [ˈæɡəni]
n. 苦恼；极大的痛苦；临死的挣扎
名词复数:agonies
- The noun agony means acute pain — either mental or physical, but people often use the word hyperbolically: "This paper cut is agony."
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- n. 苦恼；极大的痛苦；临死的挣扎
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1. "At first I was in agony and despair," he recalls.
“起初我苦恼不安，完全绝望，”他回忆说。
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2. Say goodbye to your child every day, but as said before do not prolong the agony.
每天跟你的孩子说再见，但是说之前不要延长他的苦恼。
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3. During that year of agony and the following year of my grieving, everything stopped for me.
在那一年的痛苦和接下来整整一年的悲恸中，我生活中的一切都停止了。
- agony (n.) late 14c., "mental suffering" (especially that of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane), from Old French agonie, agoine "anguish, terror, death agony" (14c.), and directly from Late Latin agonia, from Greek agonia "a struggle for victory" (in wrestling, etc.), in a general sense "exercise, gymnastics;" also of mental struggles, "agony, anguish." This is from agon "assembly, mass of people brought together," especially to watch the games, hence, "a contest," then, generally, "any struggle or trial;" from the verb agein "put in motion, move" (here specifically as "assemble, bring together"), from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move."
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