distress 中文

名词 (Noun)PREdis-SUF-ress

(Cause of) discomfort.
1. To heighten his distress, he is approached by his wife, and bitterly upbraided for his perfidy in concealing from her his former connexions (with that unhappy girl who is here present with her child, the innocent offspring of her amours, fainting at the sight of his misfortunes, being unable to relieve him farther), and plunging her into those difficulties she never shall be able to surmount.

I immediately considered that this must be some ship in distress, and that they had some comrade, or some other ship in company, and fired these gun for signals of distress, and to obtain help.

To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
1. She respects me, no doubt, but has no longer any passionate feeling for me, and my death will distress her without plunging her in despair.

This power of distress, as anciently used, became as oppressive as the feudal forfeiture. It was as hard for the tenant to be stripped in an instant of all his goods, for arrears of rent, as to be turned out of the possession of his farm.

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

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用于句中
- We measured the duration, interelement interval, peak frequency and bandwidth of echolocation pulses and distress syllables.
- Victims of cyberstalking experience increased psychological distress compared to stalking victims in general.
- Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.
用于句首
- Distress calls structures included multiharmonic shallowly modulated calls (A), calls with sideband modulations (B, C), and some calls with nonlinear phenomena (D).

Definition of distress in English Dictionary