英语单词 | grievance |
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英美音标 | 英 ['ɡriːvəns] 美 ['ɡriːvəns] |
中文释义 | n.委屈;冤情;苦况 |
英语例句 | (1) The idea makes me feel a sense of grievance. (2) He will not easily forget his grievance. (3) He used the occasion to express all his old grievance against the chairman. (4) A committee was set up to look into the workers' grievances. (5) Nobody could redress the grievance for him. (6) Nursing a grievance makes you bitter. (7) He took the dose down with a grievance. |
中文例句 | (1) 我突然感到很委屈。 (2) 他不会轻易忘掉他的委屈。 (3) 他利用那机会表达了对主席积压已久的怨气。 (4) 成立了一个委员会来调查工人的不满。 (5) 没人能为他申冤。 (6) 积怨在心只能使你不愉快。 (7) 他苦着脸吞下了那付药。 |
vocabulary简明 | A grievance is a complaint. It can be formal, like an employee files grievance because of unsafe working conditions, or more of an emotional matter, like a grievance against an old friend who betrayed you. |
vocabulary扩展 | A grievance is a complaint that may or may not be justified. Often a grievance is a complaint about something that breaks a rule or a law, like a grievance filed against a person who builds a fence in his front yard in a town that does not allow that. If that same neighbor plants flowers he knows make you sneeze uncontrollably, you might be unhappy about that, but this is the kind of grievance you can work out among yourselves. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]委屈;不满;不平;抱怨 If you have a grievance about something that has happened or been done, you believe that it was unfair. [usu with supp]
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