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suffering

/suhf-er-ing, suhf-ring/US // ˈsʌf ər ɪŋ, ˈsʌf rɪŋ //UK // (ˈsʌfərɪŋ, ˈsʌfrɪŋ) //

痛苦,苦难,煎熬,苦痛

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of a person or thing that suffers.
    • : Often sufferings. something suffered by a person or a group of people; pain: the sorrows and sufferings of our poorest citizens.

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Examples

  • This outcome would prolong the pandemic and its subsequent death and suffering.

  • As American adults faced economic hardships brought on by the pandemic this year, a real-time payment system—which many countries around the world have already instituted—could have saved money and prevented suffering, Klein says.

  • “The city is obligated, I think, to take some time to take stock of how much harm this caused – and then take measures to remedy or compensate people for that suffering,” he said.

  • Pleasure is good and suffering is bad because Reality is essentially directed toward the former and away from the latter.

  • While we seldom stop to think about it, much of the suffering faced by humanity is brought about by the systemic foe that is the Work Crisis.

  • In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.

  • The program—weirdly—is now under the umbrella of ABC News, and is suffering from flat ratings and an aging demographic.

  • It seemed gratuitous and counter-intuitive in a story that had already inflicted more than enough suffering.

  • Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor.

  • Another man chimes in: “Today we are living at the edge of suffering.”

  • In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.

  • There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.

  • They are unquestionably penitent now; but then, you know, they have the recollection of very recent suffering fresh upon them.

  • Because if that was to atone for man's sin, it was needless, as God could have forgiven man without Himself suffering.

  • The General in command of the station was a feeble old man, suffering from senile decay.