agony
/ˈæɡ.ə.ni/ 名词 B2中文： 极大的痛苦、苦恼、烦闷、（感情的） 迸发
- Extreme pain or anguish. · When the weight fell on her foot, she cried out in agony.
- The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (often capitalized).
- Violent contest or striving.
- Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
- The last struggle of life; death struggle.
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Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!” He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
“Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well--I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies.
Anger was still too hot in her heart for that and it sustained her amid all her agony of humiliation.
All this might be quite true, and indeed, proved to be so, but it did not materially help Anne in the first agony of homesickness that seized upon her.
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