pain
n. 痛; 痛苦; 討厭的人/事
v. 使痛苦; 使苦惱
Pain is the feeling of great discomfort you have, for example when you have been hurt or when you are ill.
...back pain.
背痛
...a bone disease that caused excruciating pain...
造成劇痛的骨病
Pain is the feeling of unhappiness that you have when something unpleasant or upsetting happens.
...grey eyes that seemed filled with pain.
似乎充滿了痛苦的灰眼睛
If a fact or idea pains you, it makes you feel upset and disappointed.
This public acknowledgment of Ted's disability pained my mother...
這一下大家都知道了特德的殘疾,這讓母親非常痛苦。
It pains me to think of you struggling all alone.
想到你一個人苦苦掙扎,我很難過。
In informal English, if you call someone or something a pain or a pain in the neck, you mean that they are very annoying or irritating. Expressions such as a pain in the arse and a pain in the backside in British English, or a pain in the ass and a pain in the butt in American English, are also used, but most people consider them offensive.
If someone is at pains to do something, they are very eager and anxious to do it, especially because they want to avoid a difficult situation.
Mobil is at pains to point out that the chances of an explosion at the site are remote.
美孚公司急於說明那個地點發生爆炸的可能性微乎其微。
You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
All Corfield got for his pains was a bullet in the head...
科菲爾德千辛萬苦,到頭來卻被一槍爆頭。
The Professor lavished his learning on the young visitor but gained little gratitude for his pains.
教授將自己的學識傾囊傳授給那位年輕訪客,到頭來卻沒有獲得一點感激。
If someone is ordered not to do something on pain of or under pain of death, imprisonment, or arrest, they will be killed, put in prison, or arrested if they do it.
We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.
我們被禁止使用母語,違者將被關進監獄。
If you take pains to do something or go to great pains to do something, you try hard to do it, because you think it is important to do it.
Social workers went to great pains to acknowledge men's domestic rights...
社會工作者儘量尊重男性的家庭權利。
I had taken great pains with my appearance.
我在自己的容貌上下了很多工夫。
1. a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;
2. emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;
3. a somatic sensation of acute discomfort;
4. a bothersome annoying person;
5. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;
1. cause bodily suffering to
2. cause emotional anguish or make miserable;
ache, pain, sore
這些名詞均含有"疼,疼痛"之意。
for one's pains
(非正式)作為對努力或辛苦的不公平的報酬
no pain, no gain
(主北美)不勞則無獲
on (或 under) pain of
違反則 以…處罰
on pain of 或 under pain of
違則以…處罰:應受一種指定懲罰的刑罰,如死刑
The medicine is used to assuage pain.
這種藥用來止痛.
The wounded animal roared out in pain.
受傷的動物痛得直號叫.
I'm afraid that your leg will have to be operated on; there's no other way to stop the pain.
恐怕你的腿得做手術, 沒有其他辦法止痛.
Yes, you can go to the party, but you come late on the pain of death.
好, 你可以去參加舞會了, 但你回來晚了得小心挨罰.
He was lancinated with pain.
他痛如刀割.