distress
distress 英 [dɪˈstres] 美 [dɪˈstrɛs]
n. 危难，不幸；贫困；悲痛 vt. 使悲痛；使贫困
进行时:distressing 过去式:distressed 过去分词:distressed 第三人称单数:distresses 名词复数:distresses
- If you are in distress, you are in trouble. You're hurting — either physically or mentally.
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- n. 危难，不幸；贫困；悲痛
- vt. 使悲痛；使贫困
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1. Men are awake enough to their own interests, who turn a deaf ear to their friends' distress.
对朋友的痛苦置若罔闻的人， 对个人的利益非常注意。
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2. We are the kindest people on earth; kind every day to oneanother and sympathetically responsive to every rumor of distress.
我们是地球上最善良的人民；每日善待彼此，对每一个不幸的传闻都报以同情的回应。
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3. Although we do not know the long-term consequences of separation or deprivation ， we do know that they can produce acute immediate distress .
虽然我们不知道分离和丧失亲人的长期后果，但我们知道它们能立即引起剧烈的悲痛。
- distress (n.) late 13c., "circumstance that causes anxiety or hardship," from Old French destresse, from Vulgar Latin *districtia "restraint, affliction, narrowness, distress," from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere "draw apart, hinder," also, in Medieval Latin "compel, coerce," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + stringere "draw tight, press together" (see strain (v.)). Meaning "anguish, suffering; grief" is from c. 1300.
- distress (v.) late 14c., from Old French destresser, from Vulgar Latin *districtiare (see distress (n.)). Related: Distressed; distressing.
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