n.不幸；危难；苦恼；痛苦
vt.使苦恼；使痛苦
I pray that you will have pity on my distress. 我请求你可怜可怜我的不幸遭遇。
I gripe more from habit than from genuine distress. 我抱怨是出于我的习惯，并非遭遇真正的不幸。
They sent a distress rocket. 他们发出了一枚呼救信号火箭。
His wild behavior was a great distress to his mother. 他的放荡的行为使他的母亲极为苦恼。
What are you looking so distressed for? 什么事情使你看起来如此烦恼？
The sick man showed signs of distress. 那个生病的男人表现出痛苦的迹象。
Two in distress make sorrow less. 灾难二人共，痛苦可减轻。
用作及物动词 (vt.)Don't distress yourself about it. 别为那件事苦恼了。
He couldn't distress her with his own terrible dilemma. 他不能用自己糟糕的困境来折磨她。
distress用作动词时的基本意思是“使痛苦,使忧伤”,指某些令人不愉快的事或消息使人心情低落,其后通常接表示人称的代词作宾语。
distress的过去分词distressed常用作形容词,在句中作表语。
