tribulation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌtɹɪbjʊˈleɪ̯ʃən/    美 /ˌtɹɪbjəˈleɪ̯ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any adversity; a trying period or event. countable,uncountable
    — What wit have we (poor fools) to wit what will serve us, when the blessed Apostle himself in his sore tribulation, praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God in a manner that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that tribulation to strengthen him was far better for him, than to take that tribulation from him?

词形变化

tribulations plural

词源

From Middle English tribulation, from Old French tribulacion, from Late Latin trībulātiō (“distress, trouble, tribulation, affliction”), from Latin tribulāre (“to press, probably also thresh out grain”), from trībulum (“a sledge consisting of a wooden block studded with sharp pieces of flint or with iron teeth, used for threshing grain”), from terēre (“to rub”); see trite.
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