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Hardship is a hard life, or the thing that makes life hard — especially not having enough money. You suffer hardship, face hardship, live through hardship. Forms and news like this word: financial hardship, a hardship fund at a school. It is a serious word. A difficult exam is not hardship; losing your job, a war, a long illness, having nowhere safe to live — those are. Though actually, people do stretch it a little (the hardship of a long drive), but the centre of the word is real trouble, not a bad afternoon.
困苦；艱苦（尤指沒錢、日子難熬）
組成hard + -ship. Hard is the everyday word for not easy. -ship makes a noun for a state: the state of a hard life. From Middle English hardshipe.
同家族的字
- hardthe same hard, meaning not easy
- friendshipthe ending -ship, a state or condition
原始詞典資料3 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。
hardshipnoun/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
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Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
- He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
- If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.
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A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.
- When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.
hardshipverb/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
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To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
- […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]
- Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.
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。