wretchedness

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美

网络  不幸; 悲惨; 可怜

BNC.35098 / COCA.33025

英英释义

noun

• the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
  1. he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness
• the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
  1. the wretchedness for which these prisons became known
  2. the grey wretchedness of the rain
• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
  1. the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
  Synonym:miserymiserableness

双语例句

• I sobbed: I was beyond regarding self-respect, weighed down by fatigue and wretchedness.
  我抽泣着，我已经顾不得自尊心了，我的自尊心已经被疲劳和狼狈压倒了。
• This solution which is complete on one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous wretchedness.
  这种只完成一个方面的解决办法必然把它引向这样两个极端：丑恶不堪的豪华和丑恶不堪的穷苦。
• We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.
  我们应该勉力保持自己的心开放于受苦和不幸的人，也要不继地祈求天主赐予我们怜悯别人的精神，因为这才是真正的天主的精神。
• And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
  你这样待我，我若在你眼前蒙恩，求你立时将我杀了，不叫我见自己的苦情。
• And she saw the other's life, and it was sorrow and distress, horror, and wretchedness.
  她又看那另一个生命：它是忧愁和平困、苦难和悲哀的化身。
• It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else.
  穷困和其他事物是一样的。
• From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness.
  年复一年，孩子长大了，她的苦难也增加了。
• Their society can afford no pleasure that will atone for such wretchedness as this!
  跟他们做朋友虽然能够获得愉快，可是实在抵偿不了这种难堪的局面。
• Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of flesh and spirit;
  这里的生活除了灵与肉的肮脏和悲惨，什么也提供不了。
• Wine and tobacco seemed to have a special attraction for him, for he felt they were inexpensive yet from them he could surely draw comfort and the strength to struggle on, forgetting his past wretchedness.
  烟，酒，现在仿佛对他有种特别的诱力，他觉得这两样东西是花钱不多，而必定足以安慰他；使他依然能往前苦奔，而同时能忘了过去的苦痛。