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单词 miserably
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Definition of miserably in English:

miserably

adverb ˈmɪzrəbli
  • 1In a wretchedly unhappy manner.

    he stared miserably into his hands
    he slumped miserably back into his chair
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After a year of study in Europe, I got miserably homesick.
    • Man lives briefly here in the world, and alone, miserably, fearfully, he dies, like a shadow left by the sun.
    • When you see miserably unhappy adults who punish themselves with alcohol and unhappy relationships, you know they didn't get that way overnight.
    • He wanders miserably through the woods and by a stroke of misfortune finds himself wed to a corpse bride.
    • We are subjected to endless scenes of the playwright miserably attempting to finish her first play.
    • He liked dropping in and being treated as the visiting uncle who'd sit miserably by the fireside.
    • He brought death upon himself because, seeking riches, he became impoverished and ended his life miserably in lands far away.
    • He plays the splendidly repressed and self-righteous Octavius Caesar, miserably uncomfortable when forced to drink and engage in swordplay.
    • The movie showed families living miserably through the cultural wasteland of the 1970s.
    • The role he has written for himself is the hero as chump, and chump as hero, hunched miserably over his typewriter.
    1. 1.1 In a way that causes unhappiness or pain.
      a considerable number of animals perished miserably
      the miserably oppressed population
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even with all their clothes on, they shivered miserably in their double sleeping bags.
      • I grew up in Florida, where it is miserably hot and humid, and you get sweaty walking from your house to the car.
      • The humidity was so miserably high there compared to bone dryness here, which is much more pleasant.
      • I know people who get so bitter because it's a miserably hard, unbelievably difficult thing to do.
      • They live tortoises in the holds of their ships, where the animals remained miserably alive for months without food or water.
      • Her miserably pathetic condition abets her father to pierce the dagger.
      • Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky, not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
      • He returns to his home in a miserably poor town on the desert's edge.
      • Its people have suffered miserably over many, many years—quite unjustifiably.
      • Self-exiled to the Marquesas archipelago, he expired miserably in 1903 from the effects of social diseases and more-than-social drinking.
  • 2In a pitiable or contemptible manner; terribly.

    all attempts have failed miserably in the past
    our team fared miserably
    as submodifier a miserably paid job
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is not so much a movie as a series of badly acted, miserably written, disconnected scenes.
    • This movie invites—nay, begs—comparison to The Godfather, and fares miserably in such comparisons.
    • Whatever he was trying, he failed at it miserably.
    • Next stop is a Harlem barber shop, where the guitar fails miserably.
    • Like the earlier film, this one has a miserably contrived plot.
    • A student may spend 10 minutes playing music that already has been mastered or 10 minutes trying to play something he is struggling miserably at.
    • For decades this film archive was tied in legal knots and available only in miserably inadequate video prints.
    • Since 1991, I have worked and often lived in a country where food policy failed, utterly and miserably.
    • There were many who behaved miserably and did little to understand native culture.
    • He paints miserably.
 
 

Definition of miserably in US English:

miserably

adverbˈmizərblē
  • 1In a wretchedly unhappy manner.

    he stared miserably into his hands
    he slumped miserably back into his chair
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We are subjected to endless scenes of the playwright miserably attempting to finish her first play.
    • Man lives briefly here in the world, and alone, miserably, fearfully, he dies, like a shadow left by the sun.
    • He wanders miserably through the woods and by a stroke of misfortune finds himself wed to a corpse bride.
    • The role he has written for himself is the hero as chump, and chump as hero, hunched miserably over his typewriter.
    • He liked dropping in and being treated as the visiting uncle who'd sit miserably by the fireside.
    • The movie showed families living miserably through the cultural wasteland of the 1970s.
    • After a year of study in Europe, I got miserably homesick.
    • He brought death upon himself because, seeking riches, he became impoverished and ended his life miserably in lands far away.
    • When you see miserably unhappy adults who punish themselves with alcohol and unhappy relationships, you know they didn't get that way overnight.
    • He plays the splendidly repressed and self-righteous Octavius Caesar, miserably uncomfortable when forced to drink and engage in swordplay.
    1. 1.1 In a way that causes unhappiness or pain.
      a considerable number of animals perished miserably
      the miserably oppressed population
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her miserably pathetic condition abets her father to pierce the dagger.
      • Even with all their clothes on, they shivered miserably in their double sleeping bags.
      • I grew up in Florida, where it is miserably hot and humid, and you get sweaty walking from your house to the car.
      • He returns to his home in a miserably poor town on the desert's edge.
      • Its people have suffered miserably over many, many years—quite unjustifiably.
      • They live tortoises in the holds of their ships, where the animals remained miserably alive for months without food or water.
      • I know people who get so bitter because it's a miserably hard, unbelievably difficult thing to do.
      • Self-exiled to the Marquesas archipelago, he expired miserably in 1903 from the effects of social diseases and more-than-social drinking.
      • Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky, not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
      • The humidity was so miserably high there compared to bone dryness here, which is much more pleasant.
  • 2In a pitiable or contemptible manner; terribly.

    all attempts have failed miserably in the past
    our team fared miserably
    as submodifier a miserably paid job
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This movie invites—nay, begs—comparison to The Godfather, and fares miserably in such comparisons.
    • Since 1991, I have worked and often lived in a country where food policy failed, utterly and miserably.
    • Whatever he was trying, he failed at it miserably.
    • There were many who behaved miserably and did little to understand native culture.
    • He paints miserably.
    • A student may spend 10 minutes playing music that already has been mastered or 10 minutes trying to play something he is struggling miserably at.
    • For decades this film archive was tied in legal knots and available only in miserably inadequate video prints.
    • Next stop is a Harlem barber shop, where the guitar fails miserably.
    • Like the earlier film, this one has a miserably contrived plot.
    • It is not so much a movie as a series of badly acted, miserably written, disconnected scenes.
 
 
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