extreme physical or mental pain（精神或肉体的）极度痛苦- in agony Jack collapsed in agony on the floor.杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。🔊🔊
- in an agony of something She waited in an agony of suspense.她提心吊胆地等待着。🔊🔊
- It was agony not knowing where the children were.孩子们下落不明真让人揪心。🔊🔊
- The worst agonies of the war were now beginning.战争最深重的苦难现在开始了。🔊🔊
- Tell me now! Don’t prolong the agony (= make it last longer).现在就告诉我吧！别再让我心急如焚。
- It is inhuman to keep a man facing the agony of execution for so long.让一个人长时间面对处决的痛苦是不人道的。
Extra Examples- The soldier died in agony.这个士兵痛苦地死去。
- She mumbled an apology in an agony of embarrassment.她极为尴尬地咕哝着道了歉。
- She was causing David a great deal of agony.她让戴维饱受痛苦。
- They went through agony in the search for their missing relatives.他们在寻找失散亲人的过程中经历了极大的痛苦。
- The little creature squirmed in its death agonies.这个小生命快要死了，正痛苦地扭动着身体。
- He endured agonies of loneliness and misery.他忍受着寂寞和贫穷的折磨。
Topics Illnessc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- excruciating
- extreme
- intense
- …
verb + agonyprepositionphrases- a groan of agony
- a scream of agony
- groan in agony
- …
See full entry Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting mental anguish alone): via Old French and late Latin from Greek agōnia, from agōn ‘contest’. The sense of physical suffering dates from the early 17th cent.