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angst

/ahngkst, angst/US // ɑŋkst, æŋst //UK // (æŋst, German aŋst) //

愤怒,焦虑,忧虑,愤懑

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.

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Examples

  • The games don’t save us, but they allow for a release of all the angst and pressure.

  • It is an exceptionally vulnerable stage of life anyway, and this is a generation that has grown up with school-shooter drills and built-in angst about the long-term effects of climate change.

  • Twelve years after conservatives condemned a Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing radicalization, its conclusion — that the Internet and economic angst were making it easier for extremists to recruit — looks prescient.

  • A buildup of angst against ad trackers and app snooping led to major changes in hardware and software alike.

  • This covid-19 shutdown is the small respite that everyone needed, the pass that is going to prevent an entire subcategory of familial angst in 2020.

  • Heightening his angst, Warren pines for precocious Jessica (Gevinson).

  • All the paranoia over shape, all the body angst, previously thought as reserved for women, is coming our way, guys.

  • Breaking up is hard to do—especially for your friends who have to listen to countless hours of your post-relationship angst.

  • Even before that ode to Jewish angst and masturbation hit the bookstores in 1969, Roth was a Yaddo veteran.

  • And I admit I look back on my teenage self and think a lot of my angst sounds like an Onion article.

  • Her situation is a very difficult one; and "die Angst," she says, often brings on a pain at her heart.

  • As used in the early eighteenth century, the term "hyp" was perhaps not far from what our century has learned to call Angst.