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单词 distressed area
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distressed area
b. Of actions or conditions: Pertaining to or showing distress; in straits, sorely straitened. distressed area, a region where there is much unemployment.
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c1592 F. Bacon Conf. Pleasure (1870) 22 Consider how benigne eare and correspondence she gaue to the distressed requestes of that king.
1625–49 Declar. of Chas. I App., in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 1 The distressed extremities of Our dearest Uncle the King of Denmark.
1754 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 273 It would be unkind in me to leave her in the distrest way she is in.
1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 168 Their poverty and distressed situation.
1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) i. ii. 20 The continued depression of these industries entails the unemployment, on a large scale, of many..workers..and raises acute problems in a number of distressed areas.
1936 Discovery Nov. 355/2 The development of newer industries is vital to the recovery of our distressed areas, which remain the one black spot in the otherwise remarkable position of Great Britain.
1942 Times Weekly 2 Dec. 15 If their 400 hat factories became derelict they would be a distressed area.
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