Keyword
distressed
Info
FrequencyTop 400-500
Type
Kyōiku (6th grade) 
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KankenLevel 5
Heisig621
Readings
こま
(76%)
こん
(23%)
Composed of
closed box
tree
Used in kanji (1 in total)
bale
Used in vocabulary (63 in total)
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
Examples (200 in total)
I'll help you if you're in trouble.
I'm in trouble now.
You're in trouble with her.
Don't laugh at a person in trouble.
He is in trouble now.
He is in trouble.
He seems to be in trouble.
I wonder if he will stand by me when I am in trouble.
I don't want to bother her.
I am in trouble.
I was at a loss for words.
Stop bothering me.
She stood by him whenever he was in trouble.
We should help people in need.
I can't make out why he is so much troubled.
Recently he bothers me.
He is greatly troubled about that job.
He was at a loss for an answer.
She was at a loss for an answer.
Another problem has arisen.
He seemed quite puzzled how to answer the question.
He went out of his way to help me when I was in trouble.
He is in need of money.
Whenever I'm in trouble, I confer with him.
When you're in trouble, you can count on me.
They are in trouble. Can you help them?
When he is in trouble, he always turns to his sister for help.
She asked me for help when she was in trouble.
She complained of the room being too hot.
He said with a perplexed expression, "I've heard nothing, so I can't say anything."
In a sense, I can understand his confusion.
He was bewildered on that day.
I was confused by her expression.
I had never seen him so completely bewildered as he was on that day.
I was truly perplexed.
The man helped me when I was in trouble.
I had all the money stolen and was in trouble.
People were bewildered by the unexpected situation.
That's a problem difficult to solve.
It is difficult to solve this problem.
I wish you would tell me what I ought to do in this difficult situation.
This mountain is difficult to climb.
I know the situation is very difficult for us.
I know this is hard.
I thought it difficult to do the work alone.
Travelling was much more difficult in those days.
It was very difficult.
It was difficult for us to decide which one to buy.
Tom seems to be having a little difficulty.
Life is, at best, a sea of troubles.
Our teacher will give us difficult problems.
Doctors have a difficult problem.
Explain to him the difficult situation you are in.
Whether it may be hard or not, I must do it.
When he got into trouble, he turned to his parents for help.
It will be difficult for him to get up so early.
His life is full of trouble.
I found it difficult to understand what he was saying.
He is aware that the work is difficult.
He had trouble breathing.
He can't cope with difficult situations.
He is used to hard work.
He succeeded in the face of many difficulties.
He told us he had gone through many hardships.
He succeeded in the face of great difficulties.
They are aware of the difficulties.
They brought trouble on themselves.
I found it difficult to make out what she was saying.
We must get over this difficulty.
A new difficulty has arisen.
Since her father's death, she has gone through a lot of hardships.
It is difficult for me to understand him.
We found it difficult to walk in the deep snow.
We always begin with the hardest problems.
We encountered many difficulties.
It was hard for me to refuse his request.
We are in a difficult situation.
The plan has many practical difficulties.
We shall overcome all our difficulties.
It seems that there is no way out of our difficulty.
I can't forsake a friend in trouble.
It was difficult for him to hide his pride in his success.
My brother still stands by me whenever I'm in trouble.
He stood by me whenever I was in trouble.
My uncle gave me some good advice when I was in trouble.
She seems to be in trouble. Tell her what to do.
We're confident that you are up to the challenge of the new position.
I'm having trouble reading the letters on the monitor.
The money should be distributed to those in need.
After a lot of problems she managed to learn to drive a car.
You have to go through many hardships.
Human beings seem to find it difficult to give up their old habits.
It is difficult for him to buy a car.
She looked troubled by the news.
Everybody in this world has to cope with a lot of difficulties.
I could tell at a glance that she was in trouble.
It is very difficult for anybody to be objective about his own character.
I always rely on him in times of trouble.
George is reluctant to take on that difficult job.
I had no difficulty breaking the lock.
You must overcome the difficulties.
You have to overcome the difficulties.
He has overcome many obstacles.
He helped me to get over the difficulties.
We have to overcome many difficulties.
John used to stand by me whenever I was in trouble.
She is annoyed at his ignorance.
I owe it to my mother that I was able to overcome my difficulties.
It was difficult to live on his meager earnings.
This will mean that growing food will become difficult.
He broke the vase on purpose to bother me.
She broke the vase on purpose to bother me.
The trouble is that they have no money.
The trouble is that they have no time.
He went through many hardships in his youth.
We are faced with many difficulties.
You will be up against many difficulties.
He was confronted with some difficulties.
I am confronted with a difficult problem.
I was confronted with many difficulties.
The typhoon made that difficult.
He was at a loss to explain where he had put the dictionary.
We met with an unexpected difficulty.
I felt rather puzzled.
Mary has a bad back. It's hard for her to lift things.
I am in financial difficulties.
Peter overcame a lot of difficulties before succeeding as a doctor.
I owe it to Mr Smith that I was able to overcome my difficulties.
Is this the only difficulty in the way?
Tom is in trouble.
I think that Tom and Mary are in trouble.
Tom is always short of money.
I think Tom is in trouble.
Tom said he was puzzled.
Tom was in trouble financially.
Don't bother Tom.
Stop bothering Tom.
Mary thought Tom was in trouble.
I know why Tom is in trouble.
Great difficulties stand in the way of its achievement.
We are engaged in a difficult task.
If you should have any trouble, don't hesitate to come to me.
I heard you might be in trouble.
I'll be in trouble if the story gets out.
To our great annoyance, he barged in on our party.
The trouble is that I am short of money these days.
The trouble is that they only think of themselves.
The trouble is that she lacks experience.
The trouble is that it costs too much.
The trouble is that I don't have much money now.
The trouble is that he thinks only of himself.
The trouble with us is that we have no funds.
The trouble is that we have nowhere to stay tonight.
The trouble is he has no money.
The problem is that my son doesn't want to go to school.
The trouble is that glasses always get lost.
It would be difficult to improve the device without an effective catalyst.
He could get over every difficulty.
He got over the difficulties.
He got over his difficulties.
He overcame many difficulties.
She overcame the difficulty.
Will you help me get over the difficulties?
I managed to overcome the difficulty.
A new difficulty presented itself.
These patients have difficulty walking.
These patients have trouble walking.
The transition from farm life to city life is often difficult.
At the time, our country was confronted with serious economic difficulties.
According to a survey, 1 billion people are suffering from poverty in the world.
People struggled against poverty.
It was the increase in population that caused the poverty.
How many people are now living in poverty?
Many countries have problems with poverty.
Many diseases result from poverty.
They guard their families from poverty.
We want freedom from poverty.
The government promised to wipe out poverty.
Crime has often been related to poverty.
I was born into a poor family.
Some people blame poverty for crime.
Poverty sometimes drives people to commit crimes.
Poverty often engenders crime.
Poverty is still the major cause of crime.
Some unexpected difficulties have arisen.
The city was put in a difficult financial situation.
The problem is how we cope with the present difficulties.
She was careless with money, so now she's in trouble financially.
I am annoyed by his carelessness.
Having studied Japanese, Jenny had no trouble in Japan.
The governor is capable of handling his current difficulties.
Sooner or later, you will be in trouble.
There lie many difficulties before us.
If our neighbors around the world are in need, let's lend a helping hand.
Although it is a very difficult task, I will do my best.
We were all rather exhausted.
She was in trouble because she lost her passport.
It is difficult to adapt oneself to sudden changes of temperature.
They don't know what difficulties Tom went through in his youth.
When you are in trouble, you can count on me.