a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment 委屈;冤情 failure to redress genuine grievances. 未能洗刷真正的冤情。 ■a feeling of resentment over something believed to be wrong or unfair 怨愤,不满,不平 he was nursing a grievance. 他心里滋生着怨恨。
语源
Middle English (also in the sense 'injury'): from Old French grevance, from grever 'to burden' (see grieve)