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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

pile on the agony
  1. 1. [Spoken] 渲染痛苦的事情,过分渲染以增加痛苦的效果,对某事件作过分令人痛苦的描写

Collins English-English Dictionary

pile on the agony
  1. 1. n to exaggerate one's distress for sympathy or greater effect

Examples

There was a pile of disks on top of the TV.
电视顶上有一大堆光盘。
They gave me a pile of work to do, but I'm afraid I didn't understand the task, and may have butchered it entirely.
他们给了我大量的工作,但恐怕我并没有理解这些任务,所以可能把它们搞砸了。
A pile-driver is a mechanical device used to drive piles into soil to provide foundation support for buildings or other structures.
打桩机这种机械设备,是用来把桩子打进土里,给大楼和其他建筑物打地基用的。
piles of {or} a pile of sth
[inf] 一大堆某物
in a pile
堆成堆
to pile into/out of sth
[inf] [+vehicle,building] 一窝蜂地进入/离开某处

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