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
- he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness
- the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
- the wretchedness for which these prisons became known
- the grey wretchedness of the rain
- a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
- the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
双语例句
- 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。 - It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else.
穷困和其他事物是一样的。 - 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！ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - A third contributory cause was the economic wretchedness, internal decay and falling population of the Roman Empire.
第三个促成因素是恶劣的经济情况，罗马帝国内部衰弱，人口减少。 - 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。