anguish
anguish 英 [ˈæŋgwɪʃ] 美 [ˈæŋɡwɪʃ]
n. 痛苦；苦恼 vt. 使极度痛苦 vi. 感到极度的痛苦
进行时:anguishing 过去式:anguished 过去分词:anguished 第三人称单数:anguishes 名词复数:anguishes
- The noun anguish refers to severe physical or emotional pain or distress. A trip to the dentist might cause a cavity-prone person a lot of anguish.
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- n. 痛苦；苦恼
- vt. 使极度痛苦
- vi. 感到极度的痛苦
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1. Their play, and ours, appears no other purposes than to give pleasure to the players, and apparently, to remove us temporarily from the anguish of life in earnest.
他们的游戏和我们的游戏目的并非别的，只是想给游戏者以快乐，并且显然是想使我们暂时从生活的痛苦中解脱出来。
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2. In this space also lies our anguish of self defeat, of inaction, indecision, of not getting on with life itself.
在这个空间也存在着我们的自我挫败，不作为和迟疑，以及无法与生活和谐相处的痛苦。
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3. We face the anguish of having to choose and being responsible for these choices.
我们面临着做出选择并要为这些选择负责的痛苦。
- anguish (n.) c. 1200, "acute bodily or mental suffering," from Old French anguisse, angoisse "choking sensation, distress, anxiety, rage" (12c.), from Latin angustia (plural angustiae) "tightness, straitness, narrowness;" figuratively "distress, difficulty," from ang(u)ere "to throttle, torment" (from PIE root *angh- "tight, painfully constricted, painful").
- anguish (v.) mid-14c., angwisshen, intransitive and reflexive ("be troubled or distressed; feel agony") and transitive ("cause grief, distress,or torment"); from Old French angoissier (12c., Modern French angoisser), from angoisse "distress, anxiety, rage" (see anguish (n.)). Related: Anguished; anguishing.
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