| 单词 | hardship |
| 释义 | hardship (once / 462 pages) n If something is a hardship, it causes suffering or unpleasantness. After all the hardship you endured while training for the marathon, you really hope that you’ll do well — or at least finish! The word hard in hardship is a tip-off to its meaning: something that’s a hardship is hard. It could be hard work that you do for a larger goal — like training for the marathon — or it could be a situation that’s hard to endure. If you lose your job, you could end up experiencing financial hardship. Sometimes a hardship is something that just happens, like the hardship people suffer following a disaster. WORD FAMILYhardship: hardships USAGE EXAMPLESAll of these hardships are, in some way or another, connected to government regulations. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) More often it means living with relatives or friends due to the family suffering a disaster or economic hardship. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Pilar Fernandez, 101, suffered hunger and hardship during the war years alongside her nine brothers and sisters. Reuters(Dec 30, 2016) 1n something hard to endure Syn|Hypo|Hyper asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity sternness the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding difficultness, difficulty the quality of being difficult 2n something that causes or entails suffering "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell the many hardships of frontier life Hyper bad luck, misfortune unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event 3n a state of misfortune or affliction a life of hardship Syn|Hypo|Hyper adversity, hard knocks ill-being lack of prosperity or happiness or health catastrophe, disastera state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune extremityan extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease) distressa state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) afflictiona state of great suffering and distress due to adversity victimizationadversity resulting from being made a victim low-water mark, nadiran extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything miserableness, misery, wretchednessa state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune anguishextreme distress of body or mind bitter endthe final extremity (however unpleasant it may be) pressurean oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress throehard or painful trouble or struggle cross, crown of thornsany affliction that causes great suffering bad luck, ill luck, misfortune, tough luck an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes |
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