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单词 misery loves company
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misery loves company
P1. Chiefly U.S. [Compare post-classical Latin gaudium est miseris socios habuisse penarum (c1350).] misery loves company: a miserable person is comforted by the unhappiness of others.
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a1349 R. Rolle Meditations on Passion in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 101 It is solace to haue companie in peyne.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 33 In miserie Euphues it is a great comfort to haue a companion.
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. xiii. 78 If that which is commonly spoken be true, that to haue companions in misery is a lightner of it, you may comfort me.]
1775 T. Gilbert Let. 4 May in W. B. Clark et al. Naval Documents Amer. Revol. (1964) I. 279 All my Letters are inter septed by those Rebels who want Every one to be kept in Dark like themselves. (Misery Loves Company).
1821 A. Wetmore Pedlar ii. i. 11 I'm glad to see you, stranger—misery loves company.
1880 Catholic World Dec. 292 It must be a very peculiar gratification, on the principle that ‘misery loves company’ and exile is rendered sweet by the number of the exiled.
1904 Collier's 7 May 16/1 Misery loves company, perhaps, but society at large does not reciprocate the affection.
1998 B. Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible (1999) v. 477 I figured Leah and I could tell each other our troubles, since misery loves company, even though she has a husband that is still alive at least.
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