tribulation

英 [ˌtrɪbjuˈleɪʃn]

美 [ˌtrɪbjuˈleɪʃn]

n.  忧患; 苦难; 磨难; 痛苦

复数：tribulations　

TOEFLGRE

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

• Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
  我大大的放胆、向你们说话.我因你们多多夸口、满得安慰.我们在一切患难中分外的快乐。
• 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。
• Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith.
  为此，弟兄们，我们在一切磨难困苦中，因了你们的信德，由你们获得了安慰。
• 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。
• In nearly one monce of Wenchuan, we went through the tribulation in too much life, witnessed too much life and death parted, have flowed through too many tears too.
  汶川近一月，我们经历了太多的人生磨难，目睹了太多的生死离别，也流过了太多的眼泪。
• 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。
• The scribes tell us that Nicholas's prayers and leadership during the great tribulation led many to become Christians.
  据史书记载，尼古拉在受难期间的祈祷和领导让很多人皈依成为基督教徒。
• 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。
• I know that before him there is sorrow, tribulation, and death among the blacks, and perhaps the whites.
  我知道，黑人面前摆着悲哀，磨难和死亡，也可能会有白人卷入其中。