n.不幸；危難；苦惱；痛苦

vt.使苦惱；使痛苦

I pray that you will have pity on my distress. 我請求你可憐可憐我的不幸遭遇。

I gripe more from habit than from genuine distress. 我抱怨是出于我的習慣，并非遭遇真正的不幸。

They sent a distress rocket. 他們發(fā)出了一枚呼救信號火箭。

His wild behavior was a great distress to his mother. 他的放蕩的行為使他的母親極為苦惱。

What are you looking so distressed for? 什么事情使你看起來如此煩惱？

The sick man showed signs of distress. 那個生病的男人表現(xiàn)出痛苦的跡象。

Two in distress make sorrow less. 災(zāi)難二人共，痛苦可減輕。

Don't distress yourself about it. 別為那件事苦惱了。

He couldn't distress her with his own terrible dilemma. 他不能用自己糟糕的困境來折磨她。

distress用作動詞時的基本意思是“使痛苦,使憂傷”,指某些令人不愉快的事或消息使人心情低落,其后通常接表示人稱的代詞作賓語。

distress的過去分詞distressed常用作形容詞,在句中作表語。