misery
misery 英 [ˈmɪzəri] 美 [ˈmɪzəri]
n. 痛苦，悲惨
名词复数:miseries
- Misery is a state of deep unhappiness or discomfort. It's not dropping your ice cream cone. It's having a hairy monster steal your ice cream cone, eat it in one bite, and then kidnap you and carry you off to his cave.
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- n. 痛苦，悲惨
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1. Fame brought her nothing but misery.
名声只给她带来了痛苦。
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2. The vast majority of the population lives in utter misery.
这里的人绝大多数生活在极度贫困之中。
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3. the miseries of unemployment
失业的痛苦
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4. Don't be such an old misery!
别老这么牢骚满腹了！
- misery (n.) late 14c., "condition of external unhappiness," from Old French misere "miserable situation, misfortune, distress" (12c.), from Latin miseria "wretchedness," from miser (see miser). Meaning "condition of one in great sorrow or mental distress" is from 1530s. Meaning "bodily pain" is 1825, American English.
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