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- 痛苦 [tòngkǔ]
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1.
形
肉体或精神感到非常难受
- 痛苦呻吟。
- 内心痛苦不已。
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2.
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沉痛而深刻
- 痛苦的教训。
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3.
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难受的事情
- 不能把自己的幸福建立在别人的痛苦之上。
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1.
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肉体或精神感到非常难受
Examples
- 心理的痛苦更甚于肉体的痛苦。 → 痛苦
- 饱尝人世的痛苦
- experience all the agonies of life → 饱尝
- 减轻病人的痛苦
- alleviate (or ease) a patient's suffering → 减轻
- 你不能把自己的幸福建筑在别人的痛苦上。
- You shouldn't build your happiness on the suffering of other people. → 建筑
- 失恋的痛苦
- the bitter taste of disappointed love → 失恋
- 精神上的痛苦
- mental agony → 痛苦
- 关心病人的痛苦
- be concerned about the sufferings of the patient → 痛苦
- 他饱尝人世的痛苦，含恨辞世。 → 饱尝
- 我饱尝失恋的痛苦。 → 饱尝
- 兵戈相见带来的是黎民的伤亡与痛苦。 → 兵戈
Collocations
- 痛苦的表情
- to grimace
- 感到痛苦
- to feel distressed
- 十分痛苦
- very painful
- 内心的痛苦
- a pain in one’s heart
- 痛苦不堪
- heavy suffering
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