| 单词 | distress |
| 释义 | dis·tress I. 1. a. b. 2. obsolete 3. a. < each side sees its own security and prosperity in the insecurity, destitution, and distress of the other — Isaac Deutscher > < in great distress for money — Encyc. Americana > < poetry, that immortal medium fallen into distress, if not disrepute or desuetude — Harvey Breit > < these days when the world is in tension and distress because of the conflict of two ideologies — R.D.Jacobs > b. < suffered most severely in the interwar years from unemployment and economic distress — L.D.Stamp > c. < her son's dissolute ways were a distress to her > < their greatest distress was poverty > 4. a. < a ship in distress > < respiratory distress > also b. Synonyms: < the distress of the underprivileged — Oscar Handlin > < the personal distress of those who cannot emotionally readjust themselves to new views — M.R.Cohen > < the spring and summer of 1842 brought severe distress to many in County Mayo in the form of famine — J.T.Ellis > suffering applies especially to human beings, implying an awareness of distress and often a conscious endurance < the losses and hardships and sufferings entailed by war — Bertrand Russell > < the suffering of unhappy adolescence > misery stresses the unhappy or wretched conditions attending distress or suffering as well as the distress itself, often suggesting an unalleviated or chronic suffering < the stench and misery of poverty — Harrison Smith > < anguish that wept aloud; misery that could find no voice; sorrow that was dumb — Oscar Wilde > agony suggests intense, usually unbearable, pain or suffering < fell with a scream of mortal agony — F.V.W.Mason > < she suffered agonies of mortification — Margaret Deland > < the agonies of an impaled beetle — Rudyard Kipling > dolor, a literary word, applies chiefly to mental suffering involving sorrow, somber depression, or anxiety, often intense < heaviness is upon them, and dolor thickens the air they walk through — Waldo Frank > < accept national and local calamities, such as invasions, droughts, famines … with a quiet dolor which suggests passivity and stoicism — New Republic > < the “happy child” she was though underlaid by dolor — Louise Nicholl > passion is now rare in this sense except in application to the suffering of Christ before and during the crucifixion < the passion of Our Lord > II. 1. a. < distressed companies would get technical advice, loans, government contracts and fast tax amortizations to help them diversify their products and find new markets — Time > < public housing for distressed families of veterans, servicemen, government employees — Current Biography > < relief shipments to Europe and other distressed war areas — Harry Truman > b. c. < wild speculation and unwholesome overexpansion … caused several bank failures and a distressing public debt — American Guide Series: North Carolina > < the sight of blood, in fact, always distressed him — Charles Lee > also < the bitter remarks distressed the sensitive boy considerably > < it distresses me somewhat to hiss at trolley-car conductors who … were my personal heroes some decades back — Horace Sutton > < stories not involving military security occasionally distressed Captain Lee to the point where he felt it necessary to call in an offending correspondent and explain to him that some stories were better left unprinted — E.L.Jones > : trouble, bother < the distressing accumulation of down and dust — Emily Holt > 2. a. < men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty — Alexander Hamilton > b. obsolete 3. archaic III. 1. of merchandise < the weaker the market becomes, the more distress merchandise comes on the market — E.B.Weiss > < the resulting so-called distress cargoes of spot gasoline, offered through brokers, often have a strong depressing effect on prices — Harold Fleming > 2. < a distress sale > |
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