painfully的意思|painfully的解释-里氏词典

painfully ['peinfuli]

ad. 痛苦地, 苦恼地, 费力地

painfully

[ adv ]

unpleasantly

<adv.all>

his ignorance was painfully obvious

in or as if in pain

<adv.all>

she moved painfully forward

sorely wounded

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.

Mr. Walsh, whose persistence and obsession for detail are matched by his clipped, almost painfully careful public statements, isn't saying what action he will take.
While potential gains from the disputed trades aren't known, losses allegedly tied to Shearson's RJR option trades are painfully clear to certain CBOE traders.
"Anyone who has tried to administer this, from the county selection on up to the national selection, is painfully aware of how complicated it is," Scranton said.
The list of candidates looks painfully familiar.
He said that mortgage lending statistics had moved within a narrow band for some months. 'There is little evidence for anything other than a painfully slow recovery from the recession.
"Our middle-aged generation who walked away from the Cultural Revolution purgatory still can painfully and clearly remember the lawlessness and turmoil of those 10 years," they wrote.
"The Exxon Valdez disaster has made us all painfully aware of the ecological devastation which can result from a major oil spill," the president said.
"Not only is the sea dying, but people's patience too," the article said. "Public opinion in areas near the Aral is painfully concentrated on the fate of the sea.
Few readers, perhaps, will close this book unexasperated by Coleridge's foibles; I think none will come to the end unmoved by his painfully expansive genius.
Obviously, if the snake continues to writhe painfully from the economic troubles of its members, there will be new doubts about possibilities of "freezing" currency relationships into an all-European ECU, or single currency.
But the process is proving painfully slow.
As we have learned painfully in the last decade, we won't win if we're not prepared.
The hair may be shorter, but Wolf, 42, remains painfully thin, adorned with eyeliner and dressed completely in black.
Dubcek said at a luncheon address Wednesday that the shift from a planned economy to a free market system will progress slowly and painfully over several years.
And so the long day wears on. Unlike Salaam Bombay, Mira Nair's new film is painfully alphabetical in its guide to modern-day race attitudes and painfully contrived in the way it routes its central romance through the appropriate stations of bigotry.
And so the long day wears on. Unlike Salaam Bombay, Mira Nair's new film is painfully alphabetical in its guide to modern-day race attitudes and painfully contrived in the way it routes its central romance through the appropriate stations of bigotry.
Administration officials say the Kremlin has painfully concluded that victory is impossible and that the Kabul regime is unsustainable.
In one way or another - I hope not too painfully - the exchange rate will regain its place at the centre of macroeconomic policy.
The system builds consensus but is painfully slow.
Himself a politician of the older school of spend and elect, Mr. Wright has learned painfully where the new balance of power lies.
On Tuesday, Abu Nidal's group said from Lebanon that it was "painfully saddened" by the crash.
"They found it so painfully hard to believe that Senator Cranston, a man whom they had supported and voted for during many years, had received part of his hard-earned dollars carefully saved each weeks for 30 years," Mrs. Rose said of her parents.
Ellerbee told Costas of her one-time jealousy toward the beautiful blond anchorwoman, then her eventual realization that Savitch was a woman out of her league and painfully aware of it, gradually sinking into drug abuse.
The foreign investors have started redeveloping hotels, and licences have been granted to 30 travel agents in Burma. Progress, however, has been painfully slow.
In 1983, they moved over to the German track, and have been painfully converging ever since. The German approach, as much forced on them by isolation as thought through, relied on the market.
The opposition was shown that relentlessness in striving for freedom has got to be combined with political realism." Solidarity had called on factories nationwide to sound sirens at noon in memory of the day still vividly and painfully remembered.
Congress is all but certain to miss this year's deadline; its effort to put into place the deficit-reduction plan worked out with the Bush administration has become painfully entangled in issues ranging from capital-gains taxes to child care.
The awful stillness of the night was broken only by a huge nocturnal moth which kept crashing painfully into the light bulbs and darting about the room.
Instead of allowing bad debts to pass naturally, if painfully, into extinction, the government keeps their carcasses breathing with the life-support apparatus of federal debt.
"This is a company that has been painfully slow to recognize and commercialize its own best technology," says Alex Henderson, an analyst who follows Xerox for Prudential-Bache Securities Inc.

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