ж., -и 1. pain, anguish, agony, pangs, misery, torment, torture, throe(s); (изтезание) torture, torment, rack; ~а ми е на душата be/feel sick/heavy at heart; ~и Христови рел. Passion; предсмъртни ~и pangs/throes/agony of death, mortal agony; просто да си умреш от ~а that’s enough to drive you mad; родилни ~и pangs of childbirth, labour; съсипан от ~а stricken with grief; Танталови ~и прен. the torments of Tantalus; творчески ~и throes of creation; умирам от ~а die broken-hearted;
2. (тегло) suffering, hardship; hard times; кажи си ~ата tell me what’s worrying you; казвам си ~ата pour o.’s heart out;
3. (усилие) effort, strain; difficulty; toil, drudgery; без ~а няма сполука no cross no crown; no pain, no gain; изкарвам си хляба с ~а make o.’s living by hard work, have a hard time making o.’s living; постигнах го с триста ~и it was uphill work, I had a devil of a time getting it done; c ~а with difficulty, with great efforts, by he skin of o.’s teeth; с ~а поемам дъх battle for breath;
4. (пъкъл) eternal torment, hell.