tribulation

英 [ˌtrɪbjuˈleɪʃn]

美 [ˌtrɪbjuˈleɪʃn]

n.  忧患; 苦难; 磨难; 痛苦

复数：tribulations　

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BNC.18974 / COCA.17114

牛津词典

noun

• 忧患；苦难；磨难；痛苦
  great trouble or suffering
  1. the tribulations of modern life
     现代生活的苦恼

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 艰难;苦难;磨难
  You can refer to the suffering or difficulty that you experience in a particular situation astribulations.
  1. ...the trials and tribulations of everyday life.
     日常生活的磨炼与艰难

英英释义

noun

• an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
  1. his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him
  2. life is full of tribulations
  3. a visitation of the plague
  Synonym:trialvisitation

双语例句

• In hours of ease a well-read, charming companion, she was a veritable tower of strength and a refuge in times of tribulation.
  在生活安逸的时候，她是一个博学迷人的伙伴；在艰难困苦的时候，她是我们名副其实的靠山和避风港。
• But the hard journey was nothing, compared with the tribulation and distress that came after it.
  虽然这段路途非常艰辛，但是比起后来所经受的种种痛苦和折磨却算不了什么。
• Even at this point in our awful tribulation under the German scourge we were quite friendly.
  此刻，即便是处在德军蹂躏的极端痛苦中，我们仍然是十分友好的。
• Tribulation's imprint is on all great things.
  山路之后，就是大路。一切伟大的事业上面，都有患难的印迹的。
• That this is a tribulation for you.
  对你来说这是一个苦难。
• The thought of returning to his native land never deserted him amid his tribulation.
  在苦难中，重返故国的念头始终伴着他。
• Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days.
  看，魔鬼要把你们中的一些人投在监里，叫你们受试探；你们要遭受困难十天之久。
• She knew that he will never appear before her last day of tribulation.
  她知道，不到最后一天，他是不会出现的。
• I hate the tribulation, I commiserate the sorrow brought by tribulation.
  我厌恶别人深重的苦难，怜悯苦难带来的悲哀。
• I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty,( but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
  我知你所做的。知你的苦难、你的贫困（但你是富裕的），也知那些自称是犹太人实则是撒旦追随者的是如何渎神的。