詞彙精選：anguish的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
悲痛，痛苦，苦惱，劇痛 [U]
例句：
I was in anguish until I knew she was still alive.
我以前不知道她還活着，所以一直萬分痛苦。.
例句：
A cry of anguish burst from her lips.
她突然痛苦地大叫了一聲。
v.
（使）極痛苦，極苦惱 [I,T]
例句：
Her heart anguished within her.
她的心中非常痛苦。
例句：
The loss of her husband anguished her deeply.
喪夫使她極爲悲痛。
二、詞義辨析：
agony,anguish,torment,torture,grief,misery,distress,sorrow
這些名詞均有“苦惱、痛苦”之意。agony側重指精神或身體痛苦的劇烈程度。anguish指精神方面令人難以忍受的極度痛苦；用於身體時，多指局部或暫時的痛苦。torment強調煩惱或痛苦的長期性。torture語氣比toment強，指在精神或肉體上受到的折磨所產生的痛苦。grief指由某種特殊處境或原因造成的強烈的感情上的苦惱與悲痛。misery着重痛苦的可悲狀態，多含不幸、可憐或悲哀的意味。distress多指因思想上的壓力緊張、恐懼、憂慮等所引起的精神上的痛苦，也可指某種災難帶來的痛苦。sorrow語氣比grief弱，指因不幸、損失或失望等所產生的悲傷。
三、參考例句：
She vented the anguish of her heart in bitter tears.
她用辛酸的淚水來發泄內心的痛苦。
A cry of anguish burst from her lips.
她突然痛苦地大叫了一聲。
Nothing can take away the anguish of losing a child.
什麼都不能解除失去孩子的巨大悲痛。
But worse than his comrade's pain was the dumb anguish in her face.
但比他的夥伴的痛苦更令人難受的卻是她臉上那種默默的悲傷。
I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement.
我祈禱我們的上帝能緩和你們喪失親人的痛苦。
I was in anguish until I knew she was still alive.
我以前不知道她還活着，所以一直萬分痛苦。.
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish,but battle on.
我們不能被痛苦所吞噬，而要與之一戰。
Once again, the President concealed anguish under a mask of courtesy and composure.
總統又一次用禮貌和鎮定掩蓋着痛苦。
The news story told of the mother's anguish at the death of her daughter.
這則新聞報道敘述了女兒去世帶給母親的痛苦。
The couple's mental anguish constituted the unbearable suffering needed to legally justify euthanasia.
理由是兩位老人的心理痛苦已到了無法承受的地步必須進行安樂死。
