Grievance
['griːv(ə)ns] or ['grivəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action.
(noun.) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice.
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解釋/意思:
(v. t.) A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.
(v. t.) Grieving; grief; affliction.
編輯:梅森
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Hardship, wrong, injury, burden, oppression.[2]. Grief, trial, cause of sorrow.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Burden, injury, complaint, trouble, oppression, hardship, injustice
ANT:Congratulation, boon, rejoicing, benefit, alleviation, disburdenment, riddance,privilege
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例句/造句/用法:
- It has always been a comfort to me to think that your mother was so simple and open that I knew every little grievance she had. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Had it taken place only once a year, it would have been a grievance. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I told you, the last time you were here with a grievance, that you had better turn about and come out of that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Now it's clear to me,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'that you are one of those chaps who have always got a grievance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Let the tax be light or heavy, uncertainty is always a great grievance. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The eighteenth century was a century of accumulating grievance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Susan too was a grievance. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The old well-established grievance of duty against will, parent against child, was the cause of all. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Beg your pardon, sir,' said Sam, when he had concluded, 'but wen I gets on this here grievance, I runs on like a new barrow with the wheel greased. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A most sensible grievance of those aggrieved times were the Forest Laws. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet's welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The Star Chamber, which in the time of Elizabeth had gained a good repute, became an intolerable grievance in the reign of this _learned monarch_. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- As far as you are personally concerned, remarked Holmes, I do not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary league. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- So the grievances of Ali were avenged at last, and the Omayyad line passed out of history. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mrs. Norris could not speak with any temper of such grievances, nor of the quantity of butter and eggs that were regularly consumed in the house. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- He had been still writing in his hiding-place, and still dwelling on his grievances, hour after hour. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Gradually they extended their purview of grievances to a criticism of all the affairs of the realm. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The breakfast passed off in silence, for each of the party was brooding over his, or her, own personal grievances. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- These are something like grievances, and make me think the weather most unseasonably close. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Mrs. Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It was not in her nature to pour forth wishes or grievances. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Try if you can't forget politics, horses, prices in the City, and grievances at the club. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She saw that he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances, and she was in no humour to indulge him. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It is true they trumped up grievances as a pretext, but they were only pretexts which can always be found when wanted. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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