核心畫面

Picture that dull, pressing pain behind your forehead: you cannot put it down, you cannot think round it, and everything else gets harder until it goes away. That is a headache — and English lends the same feeling to problems that sit on you the same way.

可以想成:額頭後面那股悶悶的、壓著的痛。你放不下它,也繞不過它,在它消失之前做什麼都變吃力。這就是 headache更多收起可以想成:額頭後面那股悶悶的、壓著的痛。你放不下它,也繞不過它,在它消失之前做什麼都變吃力。這就是 headache——英文也把同樣的感覺借給那些一樣壓在你身上的麻煩事。

From the picture

讓人頭痛的麻煩

把那股壓在頭上、甩不掉的感覺搬到事情上:這件事本身不痛,但它一直卡在那裡,讓你什麼都難做。中文的「頭痛」剛好也是同一個比喻,記起來很快。

source of trouble · noun · A2

Something that causes you a lot of trouble or bother, because it is hard to deal with or it keeps going wrong.

令人頭痛的事

Also in this word

headache (pain) · noun · A2

A pain in your head.

頭痛

原始詞典資料2 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。

headachenoun/ˈhɛdeɪk/

  • 1

    medicinesciencesA pain or ache in the head.

    • I have a splitting headache after that party last night.
    • I advise you to take some painkillers for the headache, it's probably nothing serious.
  • 2

    A nuisance or unpleasant problem.

    • The clumsy filing system has been a huge headache.
    • Bogland now dominates the scene and the construction engineers must have suffered many a headache in seeking to secure a firm foundation.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。