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 painfully
 (ad.)痛苦地,苦惱地,費力地

 pain·ful·ly /-f(ə)lɪ/ 副詞

 Pain·ful a.
 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.]
    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.
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 painfully
      adv 1: unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious" [syn: distressingly]
      2: in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely
         wounded" [syn: sorely] [ant: painlessly]