difficulty，hard，straitened circumstances，trouble；

[例句] 我所在的公司经历了一段困难时期。 The company I work for went through a rough patch.

[例句] 我大致了解情况会有多困难。 I have a fair idea of how difficult things can be.

poor，impoverished，poverty-stricken，in straitened circumstances，distress ；

[例句] 总的来说，当今的老年人依然相对贫困。 As a group, today's old people are still relatively deprived.

[例句] 每年我们都有慈善日来筹款帮助贫困人群。 Every year we have charity days to raise money for unfortunate people.

hardship，deep distress，deep poverty，tribulation ；

[例句] 目睹困苦、潦倒的景象，他们感到心里极不舒服。 They were sickened by the scenes of misery and degradation they found.

[例句] 他们在最困苦时仍处之泰然,连捉住他们的人都深有感触. The philosophy of them during their worst sufferings impressed even their captors.

poverty-stricken，destitute，in straitened circumstances，be down and out，destitution ；

[例句] 加维在孤独和穷困中死去。 Garvey died in loneliness and poverty.

[例句] 他们两人都于穷困潦倒中死去。 Both of them died in abject poverty.

perplexed，puzzled，bewildered，at a loss，baffle ；

[例句] 由于害怕和困惑，他当时处于一种混沌状态。 His mind was a haze of fear and confusion.

[例句] 总的来说，她对生活非常困惑。 She had a confused idea of life in general.

difficult position，predicament，straits，dilemma，a pretty pass ；

[例句] 这家航空公司亏损达3,500万美元，而澳航出资帮助其摆脱了困境。 The airline had losses of $35m and was bailed out by Qantas.

[例句] 你不得不承认，你事实上是陷入了困境。 You have to admit that you are, in fact, in difficulties.

perplex，beset，persecute，obsession；

[例句] 这是个为各种内城常见问题所困扰的社区。 It is a neighborhood beset by all the usual inner-city problems.

[例句] 父母过于爱面子的做法在他儿时一直困扰着他。 His parents' obsession with keeping up appearances haunted his childhood.

besiege，hem in，[电影]Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian；

[例句] 围困今天已经进入第18天了。 The siege is now in its eighteenth day.

[例句] 巴黎被围困了四个月后被迫投降。 Paris was besieged for four months and forced to surrender.

tired，fatigued，exhausted，weary ；

[例句] 去睡觉吧,你看上去困乏极了. Go to bed. You look tired out.

[例句] 贫血症状包括全身疲劳和困乏。 Symptoms of anaemia include general fatigue and lassitude.

in straitened circumstances，in a difficult position，embarrassed，awkward，embarrassment ；

[例句] 他看起来有点困窘，很不自在。 He looked abashed, uncomfortable.

[例句] 她因自己个子高而困窘。 She's embarrassed about her height.

difficult，hard，man-sized，painful，difficile ；

[例句] 任何导致呼吸出现困难的锻炼都应停止。 Any exercise that causes undue shortness of breath should be stopped.

[例句] 这将让我们陷入非常困难的经济窘境。 This will put us in a very difficult economic fix.

confused，bemused，confounded，delusive，delusory ；

[例句] 他去世前的最后一批画作也许是最让人困惑的。 His very last paintings are perhaps the most puzzling.

[例句] 令人困惑的是，盲人对亮光也有反应。 Confusingly, blind people also respond to the light.

very poor，hard up，hard pressed ；

[例句] 在窘困的时候,小孩子的有力保护人是他的母亲. A child's great recourse in trouble is its mother.

[例句] 她是很容易受惊害怕的, 她常常以让步来打发她的窘困. She was easily frightened, and she always carried off her discomfiture by a concession.

uncomfortably，bows under，with difficulty；

[例句] 她毫无困难地解决了这个问题. She worked out the problem with no difficulty.

[例句] 那艘受损的船困难地驶回港口. The damaged ship limped back to port.

Mondayish ；

[例句] 让渡船载那些困倦的工人回家. Let the ferry - boat take the weary labourers to their home.

[例句] 他困倦的大脑一团混乱. His tired brain was all mixed up.

fatigued，sleepy，tired，whacked ；

[例句] 她又顿了一下, 她那已经非常困乏的神经实在受不住这场斗争的刺激. She paused, the strain of this contest proving almost too much for her tired nerves.

[例句] 牧羊人飞快地用锋利的剪刀修剪困乏的羊的羊毛. The shepherd swiftly sheared the sleepy sheep with the sharp scissors.

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[例句] 你虽然在困苦中也不惴惴不安. Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomtited.

[例句] 我在困苦中, 你曾使我宽广. Answer me when I call to you , O my righteous God.

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[例句] 汽车残骸熊熊燃烧，三人葬身火海，救援人员奋力解救被困的司机们。 Three people died as wreckage blazed, and rescuers fought to release trapped drivers.

[例句] 直到他看见受困的马车和动物，才意识到灾难的严重性。 Until he saw the trapped wagons and animals, he did not realize the full extent of the catastrophe.

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[例句] 并且通过使儿童文盲成为历史的同时,我们也将帮助使贫困成为历史. By literacy childhood illiteracy to history we'll help make poverty history too.

straiten；