grievance
noun /ˈɡriːvəns/
/ˈɡriːvəns/
- something that you think is unfair and that you complain or protest about; a feeling that you have been badly treated
不平的事；委屈；抱怨；牢骚 - Parents were invited to air their grievances (= express them) at the meeting.
家长们应邀在会上诉说他们的苦衷。 - These interviews aim to deal with individual grievances.
这些采访旨在处理个人的不满。 - grievance against somebody He had been nursing a grievance against his boss for months.
他几个月来一直对老板心怀不满。 - Does the company have a formal grievance procedure (= a way of dealing with your complaints at work)?
公司有正式投诉程序吗？
- By the 1950s, political grievances were again being voiced.
到了 20 世纪 50 年代，人们又开始对政治表达不满。 - He had a personal grievance against the professor.
他对这位教授怀有私怨。 - MPs spend many hours listening to the real or imagined grievances of their constituents.
议员要花很多时间听取选民真实的和想象的不满。 - Managers would make every effort to address individual grievances.
经理会尽最大的努力化解个人的不满。 - No one would listen to their grievances.
没有人愿意听他们的抱怨。 - She still nursed her old grievance.
她仍然心存旧怨。 - Some people will complain even if they have no genuine grievance.
有些人即使没受什么委屈也要抱怨。 - The meeting will be a chance to air your grievances about the organization.
你可以利用这次会面申诉你对组织的不满。 - The offer did nothing to take away her sense of grievance.
这个提议根本不能消除她的不满。 - We have to address the genuine grievances of the protesters.
我们必须解决抗议者的真正不满。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- genuine
- legitimate
- real
- …
- harbour/harbor
- have
- nurse
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- procedure
- process
- committee
- …
- grievance about
- grievance over
- grievance against
- …
- a sense of grievance
词源Middle English (also in the sense ‘injury’): from Old French grevance, from grever ‘to burden’, based on Latin gravare, from gravis ‘heavy, grave’. - Parents were invited to air their grievances (= express them) at the meeting.