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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。