grievance

grievance

['gri:vəns]

n.委屈, 冤情, 苦况

例句与用法：

A cause or reason for complaining; a grievance.

抱怨的缘由引起抱怨的原因; 愤恨

He used the occasion to express all his old grievance against the chairman.

他利用那机会表达了对主席积压已久的怨气。

A committee was set up to look into the workers' grievances.

成立了一个委员会来调查工人的不满。

I am too busy to listen to her endless grievance.

我太忙了，没空听她那没完没了的牢骚。

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n.

不满, 不平; 抱怨, 牢骚[C][(+against)]

my family's grievance against Jonathan

我们家对乔纳森的不满

A committee was set up to look into the workers' grievances.

调查工人们的申诉的委员会成立了。

短语词组：

nurse a grievance

1. 心怀不满

Nursing a grievance makes you bitter.

积怨在心只能使你不愉快。