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

• 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。
• 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。
• He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
  他从来不用不合时宜的谈话，去扰乱她痛苦的心灵。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• He nodded repeatedly as if carried away by wretchedness and frustration.
  老者连连的点头，似乎有无限的感慨与牢骚。
• 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。