Word · Frequency #1184
paining
使痛苦；使难过
paining is the present participle of pain.
To cause someone to feel sad, upset, or distressed; to grieve.
- 1.
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
使疼痛；使身体不适或痛苦；折磨；拷打。
- 2.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
使心神不安；使苦恼；使悲伤。
使疼痛；弄痛；使疼痛；使身体不适或痛苦；折磨；拷打。；使心神不安；使苦恼；使悲伤。；使痛苦；痛苦
In use
The news of her friend's accident pained her deeply.
His leg has been paining him all week.
It pains me to see children suffering.
Verb forms
base pain · third person pains · -ing paining · past pained · past participle pained
动词'pain'常用于描述持续的疼痛或精神痛苦，常用结构为'it pains someone to do something'。
Connections
Collocations
- it pains somebody to do something
- 做某事使某人感到痛心
- It pains me to see you so unhappy.看到你这么不开心，我很痛心。
- pain somebody deeply
- 使某人深感痛苦
- His harsh criticism pained her deeply.他严厉的批评使她深感痛苦。
- be pained by something
- 因某事而感到痛苦
- She was visibly pained by his rude remark.她显然被他无礼的话刺痛了。
- be pained to see something
- 看到某事感到痛心
- We were pained to see the damage caused by the storm.看到暴风雨造成的破坏，我们感到痛心。
Synonyms
- hurt
- 弄痛；使受伤；使痛苦 · 最常用、口语化；既可指身体疼痛，也可指感情伤害，语气中性。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 pain 想象成“赔”（音近）：赔钱时肉疼、心疼，让人难受——动词 pain 就是‘使疼痛；使难过’。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、literary works 该动词用法比较正式，通常用于书面语或文学作品中，表示“使痛苦”或“使难过”。日常口语中较少单独使用，常用 hurt 等词表达类似含义。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词都以 -ain 拼写结尾，重读元音加尾音都是 /eɪn/，与 pain 押韵。注意 pain 的发音是 /peɪn/，不是 pan /pæn/，也不是 pine /paɪn/；paint /peɪnt/ 多一个 /t/，也不押韵。pain 与 pane 同音，但拼写不同。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 4，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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