Misery
['mɪz(ə)rɪ] or ['mɪzəri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a feeling of intense unhappiness; 'she was exhausted by her misery and grief'.
(noun.) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; 'the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable'.
整理:罗莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
(n.) Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
(n.) Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
艾利森手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Distress, wretchedness, woe, tribulation, desolation, sorrow, grief, affliction, heartache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, great unhappiness.[2]. Calamity, MISFORTUNE.
乔琳整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Wretchedness, heartache, woe, broken_heart, bleeding_heart,{great_unhappiness},[See CALAMITY_and_MISFORTUNE]
多拉編輯
解釋/意思:
n. wretchedness: great unhappiness: extreme pain of body or of mind: a cause of pain or sorrow: (Shak.) avarice.
邦妮整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I have something beyond this, but I will call it a defect, not an endowment, if it leads me to misery, while ye are happy. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But when she went away, he relapsed under the misery of his dissolution. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Happiness or misery was now the question. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Gerty knelt beside her, waiting, with the patience born of experience, till this gust of misery should loosen fresh speech. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a part of the dreadful thing? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I wish, cried she, that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I do not mean that the members weren't deeply touched by the misery of these thousands of women. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Assuredly, brother, said Isaac, and Heaven be praised that raised me up a comforter in my misery. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- His skin, nearly black, his matted hair and bristly beard, were signs of a long protracted misery. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He has strewn with misery the paths of others, and he will live to strew with misery the path of this woman by his side. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Go--leave me to my misery, boys, I am a ruined community. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Then I was ill and in misery, and heard, as I had often heard before, that this was all the work of Chancery. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- No, indeed, Miss Woodhouse, you need not be afraid; I can sit and admire him now without any great misery. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Tom himself began to fret over the scene-painter's slow progress, and to feel the miseries of waiting. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- All the miseries and discontents of life he traces to insatiable selfishness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I neither spoke or looked, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Melancholy followed, but by degrees I gained a clear conception of my miseries and situation, and was then released from my prison. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- He was a mechanic; and, rendered unable to attend to the occupation which supplied his necessities, famine was added to his other miseries. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He would have no RAISON D'ETRE if there were no lugubrious miseries in the world, as an undertaker would have no meaning if there were no funerals. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It was all over wives and angels, and eternal constancy, and eternal despair; with miseries and tortures without end. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I only ask you to endure one more night under this roof, Jane; and then, farewell to its miseries and terrors for ever! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The miseries it entails are genuine miseries--not points of etiquette or infringements of convention. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The belief in such compensation is a great opiate for present miseries. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Rum fellow--does the heavy business--no actor--strange man--all sorts of miseries--Dismal Jemmy, we call him on the circuit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I, who have so interested an affection for you, may increase your miseries ten-fold, by being an obstacle to your wishes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The miseries of mankind would be diminished by it, and the happiness of millions secured and promoted. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Accidents, miseries, and offences, were never to be mentioned before her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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