苦難
解説 Definition
苦難は、苦しみや困難な状況のことを指します。人生で直面する辛い経験や試練を表します。
Hardship means a difficult condition or situation that causes suffering or trouble. It is often used for problems such as poverty, illness, loss, or other serious life challenges. The word usually refers to something lasting, not a small temporary problem.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
hard を知っていれば、「hard な状態そのもの」を表す名詞だと押さえると覚えやすいです。-ship は friendship, leadership のように「状態・関係」を作る形なので、hardship は「つらさが続いている局面」。difficulty が「難しさ」、trouble が「面倒ごと」なのに対し、hardship は生活・仕事・戦争後などで長く耐える苦境を言いやすい語。economic hardship, financial hardship, face/endure hardship をセットで覚えると実戦で出てきても取りやすくなります。
Think of `hardship` as a long hard condition, not just one small problem. The ending `-ship` often forms nouns about states or conditions, as in `friendship` or `leadership`. Remember strong pairs like `financial hardship`, `economic hardship`, and `endure hardship`.
例文
She overcame many hardships to achieve her dreams.
彼女は夢を実現するために多くの苦難を乗り越えた。
The family faced hardship after their father lost his job.
父親が仕事を失った後、その家族は苦しい生活を送った。
Despite hardship, he never gave up on his goals.
苦難にもかかわらず、彼は目標をあきらめなかった。
hardship の類義語・関連語
hardship の語源・成り立ち Etymology
hardshipは hard（固い・厳しい）+ -ship（状態・性質）で、どちらも古英語由来の要素。「固い」がそのまま「つらい」に伸びたのが肝で、harden や hardy も同根だから、耐えるしかない厳境を表す語だと腑に落ちる。
Hardship is made from hard and the suffix -ship, which can show a state or condition. Both parts are old English in origin. The sense of hard moved from something physically firm or difficult to something severe or painful in life. So hardship came to mean a difficult condition that must be endured. Related words include harden and hardy.
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