请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 distraught
释义 dis·traught
\də̇ˈstrȯt, usu -ȯd.+V\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, modification of Latin distractus — more at distract
1.
 a. : beset with doubt or mental conflict : deeply troubled : distracted, frantic
  < he must always be doing something, seeking relief in a factitious gaiety and nervous garrulity … a man beset and distraught — S.H.Adams >
  < in his distraught state he allows himself to be hit by a truck — H.M.Jones >
  < distraught with grief for the dead queen — Edna S.V. Millay >
 also : thrown into confusion or disorder (as through indecision, dissension, or lack of clear direction)
  < the affairs of the U.N. itself are tangled and distraughtReporter >
  < the postrevolutionary period which was more excited with aspirations, and nearly as distraught with terrors as our present epoch — Times Literary Supplement >
 b. : mentally deranged : crazed
  < she waited, pacing back and forth, pale and almost distraught — P.I.Wellman >
  < as if thou wert distraught and mad with terror — Shakespeare >
2. obsolete : torn apart : separated
 < his greedy throat … distraught — Edmund Spenser >
dis·traught·ly adverb
随便看

 

英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/5 1:27:38