distress
苦恼,危难,痛苦,困扰
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Definitions
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- : great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble: distress over his mother's illness.
- : a state of extreme necessity or misfortune: After the stock market crash, he found himself in great financial distress.
- : the state of a ship or airplane requiring immediate assistance, as when on fire in transit.
- : that which causes pain, suffering, trouble, danger, etc.: His willful disobedience was a distress to his parents.
- : liability or exposure to pain, suffering, trouble, etc.; danger: a damsel in distress.
- : Law. the legal seizure and detention of the goods of another as security or satisfaction for debt, etc.; the act of distraining.the thing seized in distraining.
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- : afflicted with or suffering distress: distress livestock; distress wheat.
- : caused by or indicative of distress or hardship: distress prices; distress borrowing.
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Examples
Their failure to act was unacceptable and affected hundreds of thousands of people, which may have caused some anxiety and distress as a result.
Sometimes it’s even a sign that the tree is in distress, Aiello says.
It’s addressing the economic distress that I’ve seen growing up in very disenfranchised neighborhoods in Minneapolis.
Stay put, build a camp, signal your distress and wait for help.
Carrying a whistle in your survival kit can signal your distress to others, day or night, as long as you have breath to blow it.
Surely all this graphic talk of gastrointestinal distress is making you queasy.
After all, what says Christmas more than obligations, gastrointestinal distress, and insane dining companions?
I inherited the Arnold Family Thunder ThighsTM, which was a source of frequent teasing and distress for me as a child.
Not only, in the rarest of cases, where there a female lead in a blockbuster action movie, but the damsel in distress was a dude.
This workforce is being legalized at a time of unusual economic distress for the working class.
The look of distress had vanished, and his sincere eyes seemed to shine again with courage and with strength.