- 1極度痛苦；悲痛；苦惱（比「擔心」重得多）
Anguish is suffering that is very strong — in the mind, in the body, or both. It is the feeling when something is so bad it twists you: a parent who cannot find a child, someone in terrible pain, someone who has done a thing they cannot take back. You can feel anguish, cry out in anguish, live in anguish. It is also a verb, a little more formal or old-fashioned: she anguished over the letter means she turned it over and over in pain. Newspapers and novels like this word; friends in a café might just say they were in so much pain, or they were a mess. It is heavier than worry or anxiety, and much heavier than a bad day. Though actually, people do stretch it — my anguish over which phone to buy — but that is drama, and it can sound like acting. Keep it for real, deep hurt. The noun is the form you will meet most; the verb is real, just less common in everyday talk.
組成From Middle English, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“narrowness, distress”), from angustus (“narrow”), from angere (“to press together, to hurt”). The verb came from the noun.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Anguishname
- 1
A surname.
- Edmund Anguish of Somerleighton
- By request, Mr. Anguish, who is an expert on comb honey, was asked to give some points on its production: Mr. Anguish uses a divisible brood chamber. […]
- 2
rareA male given name.
- […] been ready and willing to take one of the children by her husband, not being the eldest, to live with her; and that she did afterwards fix upon one of such children, named Anguish, and did request her husband to permit the said child to reside and live with her, […] and the defendant futher pleaded, that the said Anguish, the said child in the said declaration mentioned was not born at the time of the sealing and delivering of the said indenture, but long afterwards.
anguishnoun詞源 1/ˈæŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
- 1
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress; an emotional state caused by intense misery or suffering.
- It took years to overcome the anguish from my wife's death.
- So, ye miserable people; you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.
anguishverb詞源 2/ˈæŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
- 1
To suffer pain.
- c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.
- 2
To cause to suffer pain.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。