| 单词 | painful |
| 释义 | pain·ful 1. a. < a remedy for painful feet > < a painful wound > < the painful awareness that they couldn't go home — Polly Adler > b. < works with painful slowness > < is so shy that it's painful > < painful righteousness and piety — K.S.Davis > < a provinciality which is painful — H.J.Laski > c. < would be a painful anachronism — A.L.Guérard > d. < the painful necessity of renouncing preconceived opinions — Charles Lyell > < received some painful news > 2. a. < a long painful trip > < wrote the book with painful care > especially < was uncomfortable in this atmosphere of painful hospitality > b. < painful problems of rehabilitation — Vera M. Dean > < groping one's painful way through an imperfectly mastered idiom — A.L.Guérard > 3. archaic a. < their virtuous sermons and painful preaching — Thomas Stapleton > < according to my most painful discoveries — Ethan Allen > b. < laws of etymology, which painful students have discovered — John Peile > • pain·ful·ly • pain·ful·ness |
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