- 1苦苦掙扎、反覆糾結（多接 over：agonize over a decision）
To agonize is to turn a hard choice over and over in your mind until the thinking itself hurts. You weigh every side, you cannot decide, and you feel the struggle. People usually agonize over or about something: a job, a medical choice, whether to tell the truth. It is stronger than "think carefully"; there is pain in it. American spelling is agonize; British spelling is often agonise — same word, same sound. Though actually, older writing can use it for real bodily pain, like a person in agony, but the meaning you will meet now is almost always the mental one: a long, sore indecision, not a twisted ankle.
組成From French agoniser, from Greek agōnízomai, "to fight, to contend." On the surface: agon + -ize. See also agony.
同家族的字
- agonythe pain this verb is named after — to agonize is to think until it hurts
- agonizingthe adjective: an agonizing choice is one that makes you agonize
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
agonizeverb/ˈæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/
- 1
To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
- His Touch, if tremblingly alive all o’er, / To smart, and agonize at ev’ry pore?
- 2
literaryTo struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately, whether mentally or physically.
- So I took a last stare round, agonizing to see if there was any way of escape; but the stone walls and roof were solid enough to crush me, and the stack of casks too closely packed to hide more than a rat.
- 3
To cause agony or anguish in someone.
- That dreadful bill […] was one of the chief torments of her life. At all hours of the night or day it was waiting just round the corner of her consciousness, ready to spring upon her and agonise her […]
- 4
biochemistrybiologychemistryTo act as an agonist upon; to combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
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