tribulation

大学

n. 苦难, 困苦, 苦难的缘由

发音

UK /ˌtɹɪbjʊˈleɪ̯ʃən/
AU
US /ˌtɹɪbjəˈleɪ̯ʃən/

词形变化

tribulations 复数 tribulations

教材释义与例句

名词

苦难；磨难；忧患

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any adversity; a trying period or event.

    逆境

    险境

    苦难

    灾厄

    可数 不可数

    What wit have we (poor fools) to wit what will serve us, when the blessed Apostle himself in his sore tribulation, praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God in a manner that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that tribulation to strengthen him was far better for him, than to take that tribulation from him?

    Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night.

    Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. It is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

trial visitation

上位词 1

affliction

下位词 1

fire

相关短语

Cape Tribulation

词源

From Middle English tribulation, from Old French tribulacion, from Late Latin trībulātiō (“distress, trouble, tribulation, affliction”), from Latin tribulāre (“to press, probably also thresh out grain”), from trībulum (“a sledge consisting of a wooden block studded with sharp pieces of flint or with iron teeth, used for threshing grain”), from terēre (“to rub”); see trite.

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