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

• 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。
• To meet the needs of this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is slang.
  为了适应这种斗争的需要，穷人便发明了一种战斗的语言，这便是黑话。
• Thus wretchedness, think that I am wretchedness but you can not understand.
  看不懂却说我可怜，如此可怜。
• 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。
• Such was the color of her wretchedness.
  这就是她凄惨困苦的情状。
• The poverty and wretchedness I saw around me.
  我看到的周围的贫穷和不幸。
• 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。
• Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown.
  失业和苦难都已消灭。
• 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。
• 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。