Wretchedness
['rɛtʃɪdnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; 'he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness'.
(noun.) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; 'the wretchedness for which these prisons became known'; 'the grey wretchedness of the rain'.
格伦錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.
(n.) A wretched object; anything despicably.
克利福德整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Unhappiness, distress, misery, affliction, WOE.
伊桑錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Are you to be happy, while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Shall I, in cool blood, set loose upon the earth a d?mon, whose delight is in death and wretchedness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The shame, desertion, wretchedness, and exposure of the great capital; the wet, the cold, the slow hours, and the swift clouds of the dismal night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- There was wretchedness in the idea of its being serious; there was perplexity and agitation every way. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- In reality, as she knew, he had but one subject: himself and his wretchedness; and it was the need of her sympathy that had drawn him back. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Her wretchedness I could have borne, but her passionher maliceAt all events it must be appeased. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Miss Wren's troublesome child was in the corner in deep disgrace, and exhibiting great wretchedness in the shivering stage of prostration from drink. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- His family is nothing but bills, dirt, waste, noise, tumbles downstairs, confusion, and wretchedness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I passed a night of unmingled wretchedness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Is a man in my state of nervous wretchedness capable of writing narratives? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow, and quenched in infinite wretchedness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I had only noticed her temper at firSt. I noticed her wretchedness now--and wretchedness is not uncommonly insolent, you will find, in humble life. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Nothing at all like wretchedness, upon my honour, retorted Leinster. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She has no strength of will or character to help herself and she is on the brink of being sold into wretchedness for life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I only say, with all my guilt and wretchedness upon my head, that I am grateful to her from my soul, and love her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
阿蒂整理