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单词

distress

读音
dɪˈstres
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英式
词根

"Distress" 来自于拉丁词根 "dis-" (表示否定,破坏)和 "stare"(表示站立)。这其实表示"无法站立",引申为"困扰,痛苦"的意思。 衍生词包括 dismiss(驳回,解雇),distort(扭曲,曲解)等。

释义

n. 危难,不幸;贫困;悲痛 vt. 使悲痛;使贫困 [ 第三人称单数 distresses 现在分词 distressing 过去式 distressed 过去分词 distressed ]

例句

She was obviously in distress after the attack.
她受到攻击后显然很痛苦。
Widows seem to experience more distress than widowers.
寡妇似乎比鳏夫感受更多痛苦。
He keeps coming to the aid of this damsel in distress.
他经常去帮助这位处于痛苦中的少女。

强化记忆

在记忆 distress 时,你可以想象一位在 distress 中的人背对着你百无聊赖地躺在那里,周围没有人来帮助他。这样的图像肯定会使你感到 distress,下次你看到这个单词时,就可以回想起这个场景来。"Distress" 最早的用法可以追溯到14世纪的英语,用于描述因贫困、疾病、痛苦等原因导致的不幸或灾难。

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physical pain,or emotional distress.And extreme sleep deprivation like jetlag can throw off your biological clock,
like the 60-something-year-old schizophrenic homeless womanwho was in distressand fighting with the voices in her head,
when you have loss of function owing to poor perfusion of kidney, of liver,acute respiratory distress syndromeand damage suffered in cardiac-bypass surgery.
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