agonize

verb

1. 苦苦思索；焦虑不已
   to spend a long time thinking and worrying about a difficult situation or problem
   1. I spent days agonizing over whether to take the job or not.
      我用了好些天苦苦思考是否接受这个工作。

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 agonise


1. VERB 感到极度焦虑；苦苦思索
   If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
   1. Perhaps he was agonizing over the moral issues involved...
      也许他正在为其中牵扯的道德问题而伤脑筋。
   2. She only made the decision to apply for training after years of agonizing.
      多年的苦苦思索之后，她才作出了申请培训的决定。

1. Perhaps he was agonizing over the moral issues involved
   也许他正在为其中牵扯的道德问题而伤脑筋。
2. She only made the decision to apply for training after years of agonizing.
   多年的苦苦思索之后，她才作出了申请培训的决定。
3. Ultimately, organizations don't want project teams to agonize over what programming language to use or what logging API to follow.
   最后，组织不希望项目组受到该使用什么编程语言或者什么日志API的困扰。
4. Among all the measures companies take to retain good employees, none is more effective than allowing them to do their job without experiencing high stress and having to agonize over details.
   各公司采取措施留住好的员工，最好的方式就是让员工工作在轻松并且不受细节困扰的环境中。
5. Evidently, being a maximizer can help you earn more income, but that income doesnt buy more happiness, as the maximizers likely to agonize over the prospect of a better job offer out there he or she missed.
   很明显，完美主义者可以拿到更高的薪水，但高薪并不能买到更多的快乐，因为完美主义者很可能会患得患失，因为自己可能得到更好的工作机会而苦恼不已。
6. Well, agonize no more& because a study in the journal Science suggests that simply washing your hands after making a tough choice can keep you from second-guessing.
   嘿，别再苦恼啦！在做出艰难的选择后只要洗洗手就能让你摆脱事后的自我批评呢。&这可是《科学》杂志上的一项研究推荐的方法哦！
7. They might agonize over the myriad small details they did not see, but which could have predicted the suicide.
   可能会是因为旁人无法发现的无数苦恼的小细节，但它们的确是自杀的预示。
8. But don't agonize over what to write.
   但是，不要绞尽脑汁来想到底写什么。
9. Of course, I tremble and agonize while it lasts, and all my words about the beneficial effects of suffering vanish under the torture.
   当然，在经受它的时候，我颤抖与煎熬着，苦痛之际，我关于苦难之好处的话语全都没有了。
10. In contrast, the pessimistic, who weakly wallow in their problems, unable to move on, tend to agonize and suffer over the smallest things.
    懦弱、悲观的人，即使到芝麻小事，也会为之苦恼，无法前进。
11. He who will not economize will have to agonize.
    不能节俭的人将会苦恼。
12. Patrick was known to agonize over questions of policy.
    大家都知道帕特里克喜欢苦苦思索政策方面的问题。
13. Use ints where they make sense, but don't agonize over the performance implications of int versus Number.
    在int具有意义的地方使用int，但是不要被int与Number的性能问题所煎熬。
14. There's no reason to agonize over telling people you're job hunting.
    没有理由为告诉他人你正在找工作而感到苦恼。
15. Once you make your choice, don't agonize over it.
    一旦做出了决定，就不要再犹豫了！
16. And, often I am taken aback by that old person who lives in my mirror, but I don't agonize over those things for long.
    而且，面对镜子我总会被里面的老家伙吓一跳，可我并不会为此难过痛苦很久。
17. But the company has stressed that INT131 does not agonize the full receptor and therefore does not turn on the genes associated with weight gain and edema, as seen with Avandia and Actos.
    但公司强调，INT131不会激发所有的受体，因此不会启动增重或水肿相关的基因，不同于文迪雅和Actos。
18. Fisher and Martinez didn't agonize over anything.
    可费蛇耳和马丁内兹从来不受任何事情折磨。
19. When I was young I used to really agonize over why China had to be so poor, so weak, and so backward compared to the West?
    小的时候曾经有一个问题令我极度痛苦：为什么比起西方中国这么穷、这么弱、这么落后呢？
20. You agonize over moral choices.
    你对道德抉择从不轻松。

verb

1. suffer agony or anguish

   Synonym:    agonise

2. cause to agonize

   Synonym:    agonise