"Oh, no; he never said an unkind word to me; and I was not always so forbearing, for I passed months of torment. I saw that affection, which was my all, gliding gradually away from me; and the tortured will cry out. I am not an ungoverned woman, but sometimes the agony was intolerable, and I complained. Well, that agony, I long for it back; for now I am desolate."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"I am hurting you!" He grew pale at the words. The pain expressed in his face seemed greater than it is given to humanity to know. The agony of this Christ of paternity can only be compared with the masterpieces of those princes of the palette who have left for us the record of their visions of an agony suffered for a whole world by the Saviour of men. Father Goriot pressed his lips very gently against the waist than his fingers had grasped too roughly.英文原著 · 《Father Goriot》
How from my life get rid of this relentless agony? O that the stern Death-god, night's black visitant, would give my sufferings rest! ARTEMIS Poor sufferer! cruel the fate that links thee to it! Thy noble soul hath been thy ruin. HIPPOLYTUS Ah! the fragrance from my goddess wafted! Even in my agony I feel thee near and find relief; she is here in this very place, my goddess Artemis.英文原著 · 《Hippolytus》
After Daniel had retired, his one physiological peculiarity assumed enormous proportions. It had always been with him, but steady work had held it, to a great extent, at bay. Daniel was a moral coward before physical conditions. He was as one who suffers, not so much from agony of the flesh as from agony of the mind induced thereby. Daniel was a coward before one of the simplest, most in- evitable happenings of earthly life. He was a coward before summer heat. All winter he dreaded summer. Summer poisoned the spring for him.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
So I was a slave when I should have sought to be a tyrant. Those who know me may condemn me, but they will respect me too. Pain has taught me that I must not lay myself open to this a second time. I cannot understand how it is that I am living yet, after the anguish of that first week of the most fearful crisis in a woman's life. Only from three years of loneliness would it be possible to draw strength to speak of that time as I am speaking now. Such agony, monsieur, usually ends in death; but this--well, it was the agony of death with no tomb to end it. I have known pain indeed!"英文原著 · 《The Deserted Woman》
A few days ago I wrote to have Dr. Forbes' opinion. He warned us against entertaining sanguine hopes of recovery. The cod-liver oil he considers a peculiarly efficacious medicine. He, too, disapproved of change of residence for the present. There is some feeble consolation in thinking we are doing the very best that can be done. The agony of forced, total neglect, is not now felt, as during Emily's illness. Never may we be doomed to feel such agony again.英文原著 · 《The Life of Charlotte Bronte-2》
There's this site, Beautiful Agony, that is all about the O face, and looking at you right now I can sense-- You are like an over-caffeinated serial killer.美剧 · 《Billions》
Remember when I was giving birth to the twins and screaming in agony because Porter was dragging my uterus out with him?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
If you find my life that pathetic, I'm going to spare you the agony of observing it.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
There's nothing new in an agony column, of course, but they're very popular in America,美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》