distress

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n. 苦恼, 贫困, 痛苦 vt. 使苦恼 a. 亏本出售的

发音

US /dɪˈstɹɛs/

词形变化

distresses 复数 distresses distressed distresses 三单 distressest distresseth distressing distrest distressing 现在分词 distressed 过去式 distressed 过去分词

别名

stress

教材释义与例句

名词

危难，不幸；贫困；悲痛

动词

使悲痛；使贫困

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A cause of such discomfort.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Serious danger.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.

    可数 不可数 医学 心理学
  5. 5.

    A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.

    扣押

    可数 不可数 法律
  6. 6.

    The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

    可数 不可数 法律
v. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To cause strain or anxiety to someone.

  2. 2.

    To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.

    拖欠

    法律
  3. 3.

    To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

    做旧

    a pair of distressed jeans

    She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

hurt suffering distraint

上位词 7

pain hurting seizure hardship adversity hard knocks painfulness

下位词 7

pressure wound torture torment anguish throe tsoris
动词

同义词 1

straiten

上位词 9

trouble upset bother disturb inconvenience put out discommode disoblige incommode

下位词 1

besiege

相关短语

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词源

The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiō, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringō (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringō (“to draw tight, strain”). The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringō.

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