anguish
要点激しい苦しみ
意味
- (…に対する)(心身の)激しい苦しみ,苦悶(くもん)《+over+名》
- …に苦悶させる
- (…に)苦悶する《+over+名》
例文
He is in anguish over her child.
彼は子供のことでひどく悩んでいる。
The newspaper told of the mother's anguish at the death of her son.
新聞は息子の死を知った母親の苦悩を伝えた。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English angwissh, anguishe, angoise, from Anglo-Norman anguise, anguisse, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“narrowness, scarcity, difficulty, distress”), from angustus (“narrow, difficult”), from angere (“to press together, cause pain, distress”). See angst, the Germanic cognate, and anger.