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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.
Anguish is suffering that is very strongAnguish是一種非常強烈的痛苦——in the mind, in the body, or both可能在心裡、在身體上，或兩者都有。It is the feeling when something is so bad it twists you這是一種糟到讓人整個揪起來的感覺：a parent who cannot find a child像是找不到孩子的父母、someone in terrible pain承受劇痛的人、someone who has done a thing they cannot take back或做了無法挽回的事的人。You can feel anguish, cry out in anguish, live in anguish你可以feel anguish（感到痛苦）、cry out in anguish（痛苦地哭喊），或live in anguish（活在痛苦裡）。
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.
It is also a verb, a little more formal or old-fashioned它也是動詞，稍微正式、老派一點：she anguished over the letterShe anguished over the letter（她為那封信痛苦不已） means she turned it over and over in pain意思是她痛苦地反覆想著那件事。
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.
Newspapers and novels like this word報紙和小說喜歡用這個詞；friends in a café might just say they were in so much pain, or they were a mess朋友在咖啡廳裡可能只會說「我好痛苦」，或「我整個人一團糟」。than worry or anxiety比起worry（擔心）或anxiety（焦慮），it is heavier它更重，and much heavier than a bad day也比一個糟糕的一天重得多。
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.
Though actually不過其實，people do stretch it有人會誇張地延伸使用——my anguish over which phone to buy像my anguish over which phone to buy（我為了買哪支手機痛苦萬分）——but that is drama但那是在演戲，and it can sound like acting聽起來會像在做作。Keep it for real, deep hurt把這個詞留給真正深刻的痛苦。
The noun is the form you will meet most; the verb is real, just less common in everyday talk.
The noun is the form you will meet most名詞是你最常遇到的形式；the verb is real動詞是真的存在，just less common in everyday talk只是在日常對話裡比較少見。
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，原文照列，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
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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. […]
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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/
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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/
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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.
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To cause to suffer pain.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。