Painful
['peɪnfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['penfl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) causing physical or psychological pain; 'worked with painful slowness' .
卡洛整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
(a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
(a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
錄入:莫伊拉
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Tormenting, torturing, agonizing, racking, distressing, distressful, excruciating.[2]. Grievous, afflicting, afflictive, disquieting, troublesome, displeasing, provoking, annoying, vexatious, unpleasant, disagreeable.[3]. Toilsome, arduous, difficult, hard, severe.
錄入:昆西
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Afflicting, distressful, grieving, grievous, excruciating,[SeeGRIEVOUS_and_PLEASANT]
校對:南森
例句/造句/用法:
- There was an absence of all lady-like restraint in her language and manner most painful to see. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Excuse me if I allude to that which is painful to you, but I have no alternative. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- If his appearance even inspired us with hope, it only rendered the state of her mind more painful. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I only know he is a very foolish vain fellow, and put my dear little girl into a very painful and awkward position last night. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Well, well, this is a painful subject. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Pin-pricks hurt more than cannon balls, and incessant worries are far more painful than great calamities. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He ought not to wonder that I object to speak to him on painful subjects. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Yes,' replied Job; 'but these sort of things are not so easily counterfeited, Mr. Weller, and it is a more painful process to get them up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She must communicate the painful truth, however, and as soon as possible. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- After a few moments of painful hesitation, I broke the silence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- What I had to do, was, to turn the painful discipline of my younger days to account, by going to work with a resolute and steady heart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Well, then: is it worth while to risk what may be infinitely disagreeable and painful? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Deceived myself, I did very miserably deceive youand it will be a painful reflection to me for ever. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- This is a painful task,' said he, 'but these declarations, which have been signed in London before many gentlemen, must be in substance repeated here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Birkin stood high in the painful air, looking at the peaks, and the way south. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- For I felt as if I could not bear the painful delight of his praise. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- To me, the remembrance of our last parting has been ever mournful and painful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The nearness of this place to London was such, as to take away the idea of painful separation, when we quitted Raymond and Perdita. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But the effort was painful. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- At that instant, she felt that years of happiness could not make Jane or herself amends for moments of such painful confusion. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Left to myself, I strove with painful intensity to divine the motive of his request and foresee the events of the coming day. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Really, sir, I think she might, said Mrs. Blinder, getting her heavy breath by painful degrees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mr. Bumble was meditating; it might be that the insects brought to mind, some painful passage in his own past life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Again, as he kissed me, painful thoughts darkened his aspect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I have only a few lines more to write before I close this painful statement. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But that does not alter my opinion that you ought to try every other means rather than take a step which is so painful to me. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Adrian had been occupied in fulfilling a laborious and painful task. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The painful disclosures which were to reveal themselves in my presence, during that Tuesday's visit to Montagu Square, were not at an end yet. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
校對:南森