wretchedness

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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

• 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。
• This solution which is complete on one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous wretchedness.
  这种只完成一个方面的解决办法必然把它引向这样两个极端：丑恶不堪的豪华和丑恶不堪的穷苦。
• 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！
• I did learn about the wretchedness of abandoned wives, single mothers, widows, but I also learned about the wretchedness of lone men.
  我了解被被遗弃的妻子、单身的母亲以及寡妇很可怜，可我也知道孤身的男人同样很悲哀。
• It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else.
  穷困和其他事物是一样的。
• 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。
• That might tempt more Indians to leave the wretchedness of the reserves.
  这可能吸引更多的印第安人脱离保留区的悲惨境遇。
• Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown.
  失业和苦难都已消灭。
• Thus wretchedness, think that I am wretchedness but you can not understand.
  看不懂却说我可怜，如此可怜。
• He nodded repeatedly as if carried away by wretchedness and frustration.
  老者连连的点头，似乎有无限的感慨与牢骚。