distress

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. countable,uncountable
    — To heighten his distress, he is approached by his wife, and bitterly upbraided for his perfidy in concealing from her his former connexions (with that unhappy girl who is here present with her child, the innocent offspring of her amours, fainting at the sight of his misfortunes, being unable to relieve him farther), and plunging her into those difficulties she never shall be able to surmount.
  2. A cause of such discomfort. countable,uncountable
  3. Serious danger. countable,uncountable
    — I immediately considered that this must be some ship in distress, and that they had some comrade, or some other ship in company, and fired these gun for signals of distress, and to obtain help.
  4. An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. countable,uncountable
  5. A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt. countable,uncountable
  6. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. countable,uncountable
    — If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle.
动词 v.
  1. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
    — She respects me, no doubt, but has no longer any passionate feeling for me, and my death will distress her without plunging her in despair.
  2. To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
    — This power of distress, as anciently used, became as oppressive as the feudal forfeiture. It was as hard for the tenant to be stripped in an instant of all his goods, for arrears of rent, as to be turned out of the possession of his farm.
  3. To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
    — a pair of distressed jeans

词形变化

distresses plural distresses present,singular,third-person distressing participle,present distressed participle,past distressed past

词汇关系

近义词
extremity anguish rend difficulty distress grief hardship pain smart torment torture trouble
反义词
calmness pleasure
上位词
sensation
下位词
anxiety fear humiliation misery sorrow terror
衍生词
abuse of distress damsel in distress distressee distresser distressful distressless distress merchandise distress purchase distress sale distress signal infant respiratory distress syndrome moral distress postdistress predistress respiratory distress undistress
相关词
distrain district offend vex

词源

词源 1
The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiō, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringō (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringō (“to draw tight, strain”).
The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringō.
词源 2
The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiō, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringō (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringō (“to draw tight, strain”).
The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringō.
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