英语单词 | agonize |
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英美音标 | ['ægənaiz] |
中文释义 | vt.使极度痛苦,折磨 vi.感到极度痛苦 |
vocabulary简明 | When you worry excessively about something, you agonize about it. The mother of a teenage boy might agonize over his safety when he first learns to drive. |
vocabulary扩展 | Agonize can mean to suffer true pain, but it's generally a mental type of anguish. A student might agonize over what to wear the first day of school, and a boss might agonize about how to break the bad news about layoffs to her employees. The earliest meaning of agonize was "to torture," though now it means something closer to "to torture one's self." The Greek root is a grand one: agonizesthai, "to contend in the struggle." |
柯林斯星级 | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 agonise 1 [VERB 动词]感到极度焦虑;苦苦思索 If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it. [V [V-ing] [Also V]
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