| 单词 | miserable |
| 释义 | mis·er·a·ble I. 1. chiefly dialect England 2. a. < the squalor of mean and miserable streets — Laurence Binyon > < a bitter sort of acorns, from which a miserable flour is ground — J.G.Frazer > < read the miserable newspapers which the censors plus the paper shortage permitted — Upton Sinclair > b. < spent a wet and miserable weekend — their medicine gone and their food running low — American Guide Series: California > < no pressure of opinion forces him to raise their miserable standard of living above the bare necessities — P.E.James > 3. < a confused, uprooted mass of miserable human beings — R.E.Crist > < for five thousand years had been among the most miserable people on earth — Claire Sterling > 4. < a miserable abdication of the rights of a friend — Herbert Read > < it's downright miserable of you to make fun of it — Robertson Davies > < his miserable treatment of his family > Synonyms: < I should like him to die miserable, poor, and starving, without a friend. I hope he'll rot with some loathsome disease — W.S.Maugham > < the witch's cabin seemed only somewhat more miserable than that of other old women. The floor was mud, the rafters unceiled; the stars shone through the turf roof — Charles Kingsley > In reference to a person's feelings or condition, wretched suggests extreme despondence and misery because of affliction, oppression, or destitution; in reference to things, it indicates extreme badness or deplorable poorness < our wretched captive, shivering and cowering in the grasp of the detective — A. Conan Doyle > < the youth was wretched. His home life was obviously hellish — Dorothy Thompson > < the ruin wrought by the most wretched type of slum which seems infinitely uglier and crueller than the vilest railroad tenements — Marcia Davenport > II. < a miserable without a shirt to his back > |
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