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

• 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。
• 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。
• Such was the color of her wretchedness.
  这就是她凄惨困苦的情状。
• 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。
• Wretchedness beauty of "south". Turn an of eye to become ruins.
  可怜美丽的阿“南”。转眼之间成废墟。
• This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what may be called the well-bred mendicant,& extreme wretchedness combined with extreme cleanliness.
  那人，从他的服装和神气看去，是极其穷苦而又极其整洁的，可以说是体现了人们称为高等乞丐的那一种。
• Thus wretchedness, think that I am wretchedness but you can not understand.
  看不懂却说我可怜，如此可怜。
• The poverty and wretchedness I saw around me.
  我看到的周围的贫穷和不幸。
• 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。