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A grievance is a belief that you have been treated , or an unfair situation or event that affects you and upsets you. At work, in a union, or in a school, people file a grievance: they put the complaint in writing and start an official process.
A grievance is a belief that you have been treated unfairlyGrievance 是一種覺得自己被不公平對待的想法，or an unfair situation or event that affects you and upsets you或是指影響到你、讓你不開心的一個不公平情況或事件。 At work, in a union, or in a school在職場、工會，或學校裡，people file a grievance人們會 file a grievance（提出正式申訴）：they put the complaint in writing and start an official process把不滿寫成書面文件，並啟動正式的程序。
It can also mean the feeling of that , held onto. It is a formal, grown-up word.
It can also mean the feeling of that unfairness, held onto它也可以指那種被不公平對待、一直放在心裡的感覺。 It is a formal, grown-up word這是一個正式、大人用的字。
Though it looks like grief, it is not sadness after a death. You would not call missing a bus a grievance unless you were joking.
Though it looks like grief雖然它看起來很像 grief（悲傷），it is not sadness after a death但它不是有人過世之後的那種悲傷。 You would not call missing a bus a grievance你不會把錯過公車叫做 grievance，unless you were joking除非你是在開玩笑。
Older English used grieve to mean burden or harm someone, not only to feel sad — that older meaning is why a grievance is a harm you protest, not a tear.
Older English used grieve to mean burden or harm someone較早的英文裡，grieve 曾經是「使人承受重擔、傷害某人」的意思，not only to feel sad不只是「感到難過」——that older meaning is why a grievance is a harm you protest, not a tear這個較早的意思，正是為什麼 grievance 是你要抗議的一種傷害，而不是一滴眼淚。
原始詞典資料6 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。
grievancenoun/ˈɡɹiː.vəns/
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Something which causes grief.
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A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
- [T]he King is vveary / Of daintie and ſuch picking greeuances, / For he hath found, to end one doubt by death, / Reuiues tvvo greater in the heires of life: […]
- November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk Wayne Rooney spent much of the game remonstrating with Oliver about his own grievances and, in the interest of balance, there were certainly occasions when United had legitimate complaints.
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Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger.
- The issues of harassment and/or bullying was the top common source of grievance, followed by discipline, and then new working practices.
- Given the non-significance of grievance in the estimated results, I proceeded to check whether the data provide a systematic and rational explanation of personal grievance among the population.
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A complaint or annoyance.
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A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace.
- If you want the problem fixed, you'll have to file a grievance with the city.
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Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior.
- Indeed I do confess, that many times I have showed myself both less provident and less paiful for the benefit of the commonwealth, tha I should, or might, or intended to do hereafter; and have in many actions more respected the satisfying of my own particular humour, than either justice to some private persons, or the common good of all ; yet I did not at any time either omit duty or commit grievance, upon natural dulness or set malice; but partly by abuse of corrupt counsellors, partly by error of my youthful judgement.
- The like, 'de mot en wot,' to the barons, bailiffs, men and entire community of the port of Sanwich and its members with 'conclusion' ordering them, on their faith and loyalty, to cause the truce to be firmly observed in all its points, and forbidding them and each of them, under pain of forfeiture of life and limb and of all that they can forfeit, to commit grievance, damage, wrong or molestation by land or by sea, openly or secretly, upon any merchant or other of whatsoever estate or condition he may be of the realm of France or of the other lands of the king of France.
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。