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great physical or mental pain 痛苦；悲惨 Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc1He was too wrapped in misery to reply. 他痛苦之极，根本没法作出答覆。 Her misery was made complete when she was separated from her children. 和她的孩子分开时，她痛彻心扉。 I sank deeper into my misery. 我愈发痛苦了。 The giant-killers heaped more misery on the home team. 那支队伍是强队的克星，使主队陷入更深的窘境。 The money brought him nothing but misery. 那笔钱带给他的只有痛苦。 This financial blow heaps more misery on the community. 这一经济打击加剧了社会的苦难。 This phobia can cause untold misery for the sufferer. 这种恐惧症能给患者造成极度的痛苦。 War has now added to the misery of these starving people. 如今战争令这些饥民的日子雪上加霜。 ways to alleviate human misery 减轻人类苦难的方法 The bad news had plunged him into abject misery. 那一坏消息使他陷入了极度的痛苦。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- abject
- great
- real
- …
- be full of
- endure
- feel
- …
- misery of
- make somebody’s life a misery
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very poor living conditions 穷困；悲惨的生活 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- abject
- great
- real
- …
- be full of
- endure
- feel
- …
- misery of
- make somebody’s life a misery
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something that causes great physical or mental pain 不幸的事；痛苦的事 the miseries of unemployment 失业的痛苦 the sheer misery of homelessness 无家可归的极度痛苦 the country's economic misery 该国经济的窘困
- [countable] (British English, informal)
a person who is always unhappy and complaining 老发牢骚的人；爱抱怨的人
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French miserie, from Latin miseria, from miser ‘wretched’.
Idioms
make somebody’s life a misery
to behave in a way that makes somebody else feel very unhappy 使别人遭殃；让人痛苦 My old boss used to make my life a misery. 我以前的老板经常让我陷入水深火热之中。 His constant criticism made her life a misery. 他没完没了的指责使她的生活痛苦不堪。
put an animal, a bird, etc. out of its misery
to kill a creature because it has an illness or injury that cannot be treated 结束动物的生命以解除其痛苦 In the end we asked the vet to put the poor creature out of its misery. 最终我们请兽医给这只可怜的动物施安乐死以结束其痛苦。
put somebody out of their misery