Agonize
['æɡənaɪz]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
(v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
(v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.
整理:泰勒
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Torment, torture, rack, distress, pain severely, put in great pain.
v. n. Be tormented, be tortured, suffer great pain.
手打:西摩
例句/造句/用法:
- I was agonized with the idea of the possibility that the reverse of this might happen. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Meanwhile he cast agonized glances in the direction of Miss Bart, whose only response was to sink into an attitude of more graceful abstraction. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I must do justice to my sweet sister: it was not for herself that she was thus agonized. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Then he heard Jane's agonized cry: Cecil--Mr. Clayton! 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- At last a day and night of peculiarly agonizing depression were succeeded by physical illness, I took perforce to my bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Her firm spirit had not found relief in tears, and she suffered the more from all the painful retrospect and agonizing regret that now occupied her. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I think it arises from my feeling sometimes an agonizing pity for myself that I ever was born. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- This was all true; but it was not less agonizing to take the admonition home. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- What agonizing fondness did I feel for them! 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I resolved to visit London, to see him; to quiet these agonizing throes by the sweet medicine of hope, or the opiate of despair. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I never, never should have got over such a agonizing mortification. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
編輯:洛娜