pain

来自拉丁语poena,折磨，惩罚，来自PIE*kwei,支付，代价，弥补，词源同penal,punish.后引申词义疼痛，痛苦。

pain

pain: [13] ‘Punishment’ (now encountered only in such phrases as on pain of death) is the ancestral meaning of pain; ‘suffering’ is a secondary development. The word comes via Old French peine and Latin poena from Greek poiné ‘punishment, penalty’. Its original connotations are preserved in the related penal [15], penalty [16], penance [13], penitence [12], and punish, its later associations in the related verb pine.
=> penal, penalty, penance, pine, punish

pain (n.)

late 13c., "punishment," especially for a crime; also "condition one feels when hurt, opposite of pleasure," from Old French peine "difficulty, woe, suffering, punishment, Hell's torments" (11c.), from Latin poena "punishment, penalty, retribution, indemnification" (in Late Latin also "torment, hardship, suffering"), from Greek poine "retribution, penalty, quit-money for spilled blood," from PIE *kwei- "to pay, atone, compensate" (see penal). The earliest sense in English survives in phrase on pain of death.

Phrase to give (someone) a pain "be annoying and irritating" is from 1908; localized as pain in the neck (1924) and pain in the ass (1934), though this last might have gone long unrecorded and be the original sense and the others euphemisms. Pains "great care taken (for some purpose)" is first recorded 1520s (in the singular in this sense, it is attested from c. 1300). First record of pain-killer is from 1853.

pain (v.)

c. 1300, "to exert or strain oneself, strive; endeavor," from Old French pener (v.) "to hurt, cause pain," from peine, and from Middle English peine (n.); see pain (n.). Transitive meaning "cause pain; inflict pain" is from late 14c. That of "to cause sorrow, grief, or unhappiness" also is from late 14c. Related: Pained; paining.

1. I felt a sharp pain in my lower back.

我感觉到后腰一阵剧痛。

2. After the pain of defeat passes, England have some thinking to do.

失败的痛苦过去以后，英国人应该认真反思一下。

3. We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.

我们被禁止使用母语，违者将被关进监狱。

4. Our instinctive reaction when someone causes us pain is to strike back.

当被别人弄疼时我们本能的反应是反击。

5. He was struck by a stabbing pain in his midriff.

他突然感到腹部一阵剧烈疼痛。