Milkman says, "that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
To relieve their pains and sufferings.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
N-UNCOUNT
(肉體或內心的)痛苦，苦難，折磨
Suffering is serious pain which someone feels in their body or their mind.
例句
They began to recover slowly from their nightmare of pain and suffering...他們開始從痛苦的夢魘中慢慢恢復過來。It has caused terrible suffering to animals...那給動物們帶來了可怕的災難。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
身體或心靈的痛苦, 苦難
The medication should ease the suffering.這種療法能減輕痛苦。
各種苦惱;折磨
She bore her sufferings bravely.她勇敢地承受苦難的遭遇。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. a state of acute pain
2. misery resulting from affliction
3. psychological suffering;
"the death of his wife caused him great distress"
4. feelings of mental or physical pain
Adjective
1. troubled by pain or loss;
"suffering refugees"
2. very unhappy; full of misery;
"he felt depressed and miserable""a message of hope for suffering humanity""wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"