(单词翻译:单击)
In today's Ask a Teacher, Learning English follower Shahram is "struggling" with a certain word.
在今天的名师答疑栏目中，我们的用户Shahram在某个单词上非常“挣扎”。
He wrote to us:
她写道：
Please explain the word "struggle." I get confused about it.
请解释一下“struggle”这个词，我很困惑。
Thanks for writing, Shahram!
Shahram感谢你的来信！
We hope you will be completely at peace with "struggle" by the end of this program!
我们希望在节目结束的时候，你能完全平静地面对“struggle”！
Struggle can be a verb or a noun.
“struggle”可以做动词也可以做名词。
A simple definition of the verb "struggle" is to work very hard to try to gain something.
“struggle”做动词的一个简单含义是非常努力地工作，试图获得一些东西。
You might use all your energy struggling for control of a ball in a sport, for example.
例如，在一项运动中，你可能会用尽所有的能量去控制一个球。
Or you might spend a lot of time and brain power searching for a solution to a problem.
或者你可能会花很多时间和脑力去寻找问题的解决方案。
Here are some example sentences:
下面是一些例句：
"My son is struggling to pass math this term.
“我儿子这学期数学考不及格。
He works for hours every night to understand fractions."
他每天晚上都要花几个小时学习分数。”
Or: "The baby bird had to struggle to spread its wings and fly."
或者：“这只雏鸟不得不挣扎着展开翅膀飞起来。”
Struggle is often used in terms of moral, social and political goals.
Struggle常用于道德、社会和政治目标方面。
A recent VOA Learning English headline read: "Women with Albinism Struggle for Acceptance."
最近美国之音慢速英语的一个标题是：“白化病妇女为被接受而斗争。”
The story told about a movement to end discrimination against people with a medical condition that leaves their skin very light in color.
这篇报道讲述了一场运动，旨在结束对因身体状况导致皮肤颜色偏浅的人的歧视。
Next, we turn to the meaning of the word struggle when it is used as a noun.
接下来，我们来看看“struggle”这个词作为名词时的含义。
Merriam Webster's online dictionary defines the noun struggle as "an act of strongly motivated striving."
韦氏在线词典将struggle定义为“一种有强烈动机的努力行为”。
When struggle is a noun, "the" or "a" often comes before it.
当struggle作名词时，前面常带有冠词“the”或“a”。
For example, we can return to our earlier sentence about the math student.
例如，我们可以回到前面关于数学学生的句子。
"It is a struggle for my son to learn fractions."
“对我儿子来说，学分数很困难。”
Struggle as a noun is often used when people are talking about social movements.
struggle作为名词时，常指人们谈论的社会运动。
You might have heard the phrase "the struggle for civil rights in America," or "the struggle to end apartheid" or "a struggle for freedom."
你可能听过“美国民权斗争”或“结束种族隔离斗争”或“自由斗争”。
A commonly used term in political news reports, is "power struggle."
政治新闻报道中常用的术语是“power struggle权力斗争”。
This often refers to different political parties or individuals fighting to control a government or a policy issue.
这通常指的是不同的政党或个人为了控制政府或政策问题而斗争。
Hope that helps, Shahram!
Shahram，希望这能有所帮助！
And, to all our English Learners, please keep your questions coming to Ask A Teacher.
还有，我们所有的英语学习者，请继续向《名师答疑》栏目提问。
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