The word is pain with -ful stuck on: something that has pain in it. That covers both ends of the same moment — the needle that puts the pain in, and the arm where the pain now sits. English then lets the same word run past the body: a memory can have hurt packed into it the way a wound does, and so can watching someone fail badly in front of a crowd.

這個字是 pain 加上 -ful:裡面裝著痛的東西。這一句就同時蓋住了一件事的兩頭——把痛送進去的那根針,以及現在痛著的那隻手臂。接著英文讓同一個字越過身體:一段回憶也可以像傷口一樣,裡面裝滿了痛;看著別人在眾人面前出糗,也是。

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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

painfuladj/ˈpeɪn.fl̩/

  • 1

    Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.

    • In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow.
    • A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system.
  • 2

    Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).

  • 3

    Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.

  • 4

    archaicPainstaking; careful; industrious.

    • The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.
    • To all these painful labourers Johnson shewed a never-ceasing kindness, so far as they stood in need of it.
  • 5

    informalVery bad, poor.

    • His violin playing is painful.

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