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

• The vicissitudes, the wind and rain is rough, the great motherland experiences the tribulation.
  沧海桑田，风雨坎坷，伟大的祖国历尽磨难。
• 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。
• That this is a tribulation for you.
  对你来说这是一个苦难。
• 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。
• Jane Eyre and Rochester eventually got into marriage hall hand in hand after tribulation in their love;
  简。爱和罗切斯特在相识相恋历经重重磨难之后，最终牵手走进婚姻的殿堂；
• The thought of returning to his native land never deserted him amid his tribulation.
  在苦难中，重返故国的念头始终伴着他。
• Christ will come at the end of this time and, after a brief time of Great Tribulation, will judge the world and establish His eternal kingdom.
  在这一千年之后和一个短暂的苦难期后基督会再来并且施行审判和建立他的永恒国度。
• 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。
• 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。