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痛苦的,困难的,令人烦恼的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Painful \Pain"ful\, a.
   1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either
      physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
      --Addison.

   2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with
      laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

   3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller.

            A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.

            Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden.

   Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing;
        grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. --
        {Pain"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Pain"ful*ness}, n.

资料来源 : WordNet®

painful
     adj 1: causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful
            slowness" [ant: {painless}]
     2: causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to
        him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: {afflictive},
         {sore}]
     3: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste";
        "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful
        manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting";
        "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn: {atrocious},
         {abominable}, {awful}, {dreadful}, {terrible}, {unspeakable}]
     4: causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more
        than irritating; they can be very painful" [syn: {irritating}]