painfully

美 [ˈpeɪnfəli]英 [ˈpeɪnfəli]
  • adv.痛苦地;艰难地;吃力地;令人烦恼地;使人疼痛地;非常地
painfullypainfully

adv.

1

非常地;令人痛苦地;令人烦恼地
extremely, and in a way that makes you feel annoyed, upset, etc.

Their son was painfully shy .

他们的儿子非常害羞。

The dog was painfully thin .

那条狗瘦得可怜。

He was painfully aware of his lack of experience.

他痛苦地意识到自己缺乏经验。

Progress has been painfully slow .

进度慢得令人焦急。

2

使人疼痛地;令人苦恼地
in a way that causes you physical or emotional pain

He banged his knee painfully against the desk.

他的膝盖撞到桌子上,疼得很。

3

吃力地;艰难地
with a lot of effort and difficulty

painfully acquired experience

艰难获得的经验

painfully

频次

  • 1
    ADV (用于强调讨厌的性质或情形)非常,极其
    You use painfully to emphasize a quality or situation that is undesirable.

    Things are moving painfully slowly.

    事情进展奇慢无比。

adv

1
unpleasantly
his ignorance was painfully obvious
Synonym: distressingly
2
in or as if in pain
she moved painfully forward
sorely wounded
Synonym: sorely

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  1. The thought of dying slowly and painfully terrified me .

    缓慢而痛苦地死去的想法使我恐惧不已。

  2. The patient groaned painfully as he was lifted onto the stretcher .

    病人被抬上担架时在痛苦地呻吟着。

  3. Collecting data is a painfully slow process .

    收集材料的过程慢得让人难受。

  4. Progress has been painfully slow .

    进度慢得令人焦急。

  5. The dog was painfully thin .

    那条狗瘦得可怜。

  6. Their son was painfully shy .

    他们的儿子非常害羞。

  7. Matt limped painfully off the field .

    马特忍着痛歪歪斜斜地走出了运动场。

  8. As a teenager I was painfully shy .

    我十几岁的时候腼腆得很。

  9. His head throbbed painfully .

    他的头一抽一跳地痛。

  10. I am painfully aware that staff have a heavy work schedule .

    我非常清楚员工们工作繁重。

  11. The divorce was painfully public , feeding her dislike of the press .

    离婚的事张扬出去,她十分痛苦,更加厌恶媒体了。

  12. Mary Ann felt painfully inadequate in the crisis .

    意识到自己在这场危机中无能为力,玛丽·安感到很痛苦。

  13. Things are moving painfully slowly .

    事情进展奇慢无比。

  14. Their first album was painfully frank to the point of being confessional .

    他们的第一张专辑是那么的坦率,近乎自白。

  15. I believe he is most painfully anxious about Diana .

    我相信他肯定非常担心黛安娜。

  16. He is painfully shy of women .

    他见到女人就十分害羞。

  17. His movements were painfully impaired by arthritis .

    他行动不便,深受关节炎之苦。

  18. He grew painfully aware that the family was divided in its attitude .

    他痛苦地意识到一家人的看法有分歧。

  19. It painfully affects my English ear .

    这使我这个英国人听起来很不舒服。

  20. In the arcane world of scholarship and science , promotions are seldom speedy and almost always painfully slow .

    在知识科学的神秘世界里,很少有人得到迅速擢升,提拔的过程几乎总是缓慢得令人痛苦。

  21. If you want to change his course , you have only a few choices : you can stop him , transferring ( possibly painfully ) some of his kinetic energyto your own body , or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course .

    如果想改变他的路线,你只有几个选择:你可以阻止他,把他的部分动能转移到你自己身上(这个过程可能是痛苦的),或者你可以靠近他,慢慢施加压力,逐渐改变他的路线。

  22. I wish my country will go through it less painfully .

    祝愿祖国早日度过难关。

  23. I painfully regret that I must part with him this way .

    我很遗憾我必须这样和他分开。

  24. Even better , we aren 't so painfully on the make any more .

    更不错的是,我们不再那么痛苦地追名逐利。

  25. The old lady made her way painfully slowly towards the door .

    这个老太太吃力地慢奋奋地朝门口走去。

  26. There are two things you should be painfully aware of right now .

    有两件事现在你们应该已经了解了。

  27. Culture does not explain this painfully slow response ; politics do .

    能对这种叫人痛心的迟缓反应做出解释的,不是文化,而是政治。

  28. One painfully obvious answer is : bad enough to have lost his job .

    答案痛苦且显而易见:错误之大,足以让他丢掉饭碗。

  29. But unemployment was still painfully high when his second term began in 1937 .

    但是1937年他的第二任期开始时,失业率仍居高不下。

  30. We know growth is painfully slow , and slowing .

    我们已经知道,经济增长十分缓慢,而且是越来越慢。

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