distress

英 [dɪ'stres] 美 [dɪ'stres]

• n. 不幸；危难；苦恼；痛苦
• vt. 使苦恼；使痛苦

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U]悲痛,痛苦,忧伤,苦恼

   great suffering of the mind or body; pain or great discomfort

2. [C]贫困,窘迫

   suffering caused by lack of money

3. [C]危险,困难,危难

   a state of danger or great difficulty

v. (动词)

1. vt. 使痛苦,使忧伤

   cause distress to

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 不幸，灾殃
2. 危难
3. 苦恼，烦恼
4. 贫困，穷苦，贫困，穷困
5. 悲痛，痛苦，苦痛
6. 忧虑
7. 忧伤，悲伤
8. 被扣押的财物
9. 悲叹
10. 引起痛苦或悲痛的事物， 使人悲痛的事情
11. 【海】海难

v. 动词

1. 使忧伤，使忧虑
2. 使苦恼，使烦恼
3. 使悲痛，使痛苦，使悲伤
4. 使贫困，使困苦
5. 使为难，使难过
6. 【律】扣押（财物）
7. 难
8. 不适
9. 发愁，苦恼，沮丧
10. 痛苦，煎熬
11. 遭难，难过
12. 折磨，使受苦
13. 使过劳
14. 强逼，强制

英英释义

Noun:

1. psychological suffering;

   "the death of his wife caused him great distress"
   

2. a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need);

   "a ship in distress"
   "she was the classic maiden in distress"
   

3. extreme physical pain;

   "the patient appeared to be in distress"
   

4. the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim;

   "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
   

Verb:

1. bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

2. cause mental pain to;

   "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. I pray that you will have pity on my distress.
   我请求你可怜可怜我的不幸遭遇。
2. I gripe more from habit than from genuine distress.
   我抱怨是出于我的习惯，并非遭遇真正的不幸。
3. They sent a distress rocket.
   他们发出了一枚呼救信号火箭。
4. His wild behavior was a great distress to his mother.
   他的放荡的行为使他的母亲极为苦恼。
5. What are you looking so distressed for?
   什么事情使你看起来如此烦恼？
6. The sick man showed signs of distress.
   那个生病的男人表现出痛苦的迹象。
7. Two in distress make sorrow less.
   灾难二人共，痛苦可减轻。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. Don't distress yourself about it.
   别为那件事苦恼了。
2. He couldn't distress her with his own terrible dilemma.
   他不能用自己糟糕的困境来折磨她。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. Nothing could alleviate his distress.
   什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
2. How can we prevent such distress?
   我们怎样才能避免这种困境?
3. Send out a distress signal; the ship is sinking.
   发出求救信号吧,船正在下沉。

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The news of his death distressed us greatly.
   他逝世的消息使我们极为悲痛。

其他

～ed as s-Compl.

1. We are distressed at your failure.
   我们为你的失败感到难过。
2. Anne was greatly distressed that she had not passed the final English exam.
   安十分难过,因为她英语期末考试不及格。
3. We were distressed to find that the children had not returned.
   我们发现孩子没有回来,感到很忧虑。

经典引文

• Being in great distress of Conscience.

  出自： Joseph Hall

• This event..filled him with the utmost distress and despondency.

  出自： J. H. Newman

• There is great distress here among the poor.

  出自： Dickens

• The meagre grant..had by no means put an end to his financial distresses.

  出自： L. Strachey

• The..servants of the crown..distressed their private fortunes to gratify their sovereign.

  出自： Goldsmith

• Their horses began to be distressed in the heavy sand.

  出自： Quiller

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• ease distress 减轻痛苦
• prevent distress 避免贫穷

形容词+～

• financial distress 财政困境
• terrible distress 十分痛苦

介词+～

• in distress 遇险
• to sb's distress 令某人难过

～+介词

• distress from thirst 干渴引起的难受

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• distress deeply 非常难过
• distress needlessly 无忧自扰

～+介词

• distress about 为…而难过
• distress with 为…而发愁

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. distress用作动词时的基本意思是“使痛苦,使忧伤”,指某些令人不愉快的事或消息使人心情低落,其后通常接表示人称的代词作宾语。
2. distress的过去分词distressed常用作形容词,在句中作表语。

词义辨析

agony，anguish，torment，torture，grief，misery，distress，sorrow

• 这些名词均有“苦恼、痛苦”之意。
• agony侧重指精神或身体痛苦的剧烈程度。
• anguish指精神方面令人难以忍受的极度痛苦；用于身体时，多指局部或暂时的痛苦。
• torment强调烦恼或痛苦的长期性。
• torture语气比toment强，指在精神或肉体上受到的折磨所产生的痛苦。
• grief指由某种特殊处境或原因造成的强烈的感情上的苦恼与悲痛。
• misery着重痛苦的可悲状态，多含不幸、可怜或悲哀的意味。
• distress多指因思想上的压力紧张、恐惧、忧虑等所引起的精神上的痛苦，也可指某种灾难带来的痛苦。
• sorrow语气比grief弱，指因不幸、损失或失望等所产生的悲伤。

词源解说

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的destresser，意为苦恼，悲痛。

近反义词

【近义词】

• trouble
• worry

【反义词】

• please
• satisfy