wretchedness

英

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

• Certainly our world is home to assorted disturbing and unsettling creatures, but every dawn seems to bring news of more wretchedness we must endure as a people.
  诚然我们的世界生存着各种令人烦扰不安的生物，然而每个破晓似乎都带来更多悲惨的消息，作为人类我们不得不忍耐。
• Everywhere they went, they were confronted by poverty and wretchedness.
  无论去哪里，他们都会遇到贫穷和不幸。
• 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。
• This breath encounters heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away.
  这风碰到有思想的头脑、虚幻的念头、痛苦的灵魂、炽烈的情感和呼号的苦难，并把这些一齐带走。
• 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。
• A wife will care for, help, share every minute of happiness and wretchedness with her husband.
  一个妻子会关心、帮助、分享她丈夫的每分钟快乐与不幸。
• Humility exalteth man to the heaven of glory and power, whilst pride abaseth him to the depths of wretchedness and degradation.
  谦逊使人升上光荣与力量的顶峰，骄傲则使人堕入邪恶与卑微的深渊。
• That check-up this month, the doctor lets the baby measure the hemoglobin again, good wretchedness the baby encounters one needle of the finger again, just coaxing now to her and starting cry!
  这个月该体检了，医生又让宝宝去测血红素，好可怜宝宝又遭手指头上的一针，刚把她哄住现在又开始哭了！
• This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what may be called the well-bred mendicant,& extreme wretchedness combined with extreme cleanliness.
  那人，从他的服装和神气看去，是极其穷苦而又极其整洁的，可以说是体现了人们称为高等乞丐的那一种。
• The plea was that of a gaunt-faced man of about thirty, who looked the picture of privation and wretchedness.
  求乞的是一个30左右的男人，脸色消瘦憔悴，一副穷困凄惨的模样。