miserable的意思|miserable的解释-里氏词典

miserable ['mizərəbl]

a. 悲惨的,痛苦的

The play was a miserable failure.
这出戏演砸了。
There are still many people whose living conditions are miserable.
仍有许多人的生活条件是很艰苦的。

miserable

[ adj ]

very unhappy; full of misery

<adj.all>

he felt depressed and miserable

a message of hope for suffering humanity

wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages

deserving or inciting pity

<adj.all>

a hapless victim

miserable victims of war

the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic

piteous appeals for help

pitiable homeless children

a pitiful fate

Oh, you poor thing

his poor distorted limbs

a wretched life

of the most contemptible kind

<adj.all>

abject cowardice

a low stunt to pull

a low-down sneak

his miserable treatment of his family

You miserable skunk!

a scummy rabble

a scurvy trick

of very poor quality or condition

<adj.all>

deplorable housing conditions in the inner city

woeful treatment of the accused

woeful errors of judgment

characterized by physical misery

<adj.all>

a wet miserable weekend

spent a wretched night on the floor

contemptibly small in amount

<adj.all>

a measly tip

the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief

a paltry wage

almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans

Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, a. [F. mis['e]rable, L. miserabilis,
fr. miserari to lament, pity, fr. miser wretched. See
{Miser}.]
1. Very unhappy; wretched; living in misery.

What hopes delude thee, miserable man? --Dryden.

2. Causing unhappiness or misery.

What 's more miserable than discontent? --Shak.

3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a
miserable dinner.

Miserable comforters are ye all. --Job xvi. 2.

4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] --Hooker.

Syn: Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.

Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, n.
A miserable person. [Obs.] --Sterne.

'We've had three miserable years,' says Richard Hughes, fund manager of M & G's Recovery unit trust, the largest recovery fund in the UK growth sector.
This makes all peripherals miserable, and promises to ruin their lives.
"I think we've succeeded in taking the fossils out." Mr. Dzodin insists the proposed changes have nothing to do with the miserable advertising environment facing ABC and its competitors.
An Uzbek grass-roots movement, Berlik, appealed today to the Soviet parliament to remedy the miserable living conditions that it said helped give rise to the unrest.
We're on toad patrol this miserable, rainy March evening, 30 miles west of London.
He endured two miserable marriages and years of paralyzing stage fright, contemplated murder and suicide and battled his own rages, guilt and drinking.
The Korean-Americans aren't all miserable all the time.
I want it back, every last, miserable minute of it!"
Going it alone, though, at first seemed just as miserable.
But they were not liberated until Reagan's inaugural, and after 444 days of miserable detention.
Anything less than seven hours and he's miserable the next day.
"I've had 46 years in this miserable business and it's time to get out," he said, when asked about his decision.
Can you imagine a pill that would make your son realize that you are not a sadistic authoritarian who demands that he perform family chores simply to make his life miserable?
I was just miserable." Michael Chen entered Yale in 1986 planning to study science like his parents and sister, who are doctors, and his brother, who is a computer consultant.
The Vietnam war made it a miserable, battered killing field nicknamed the Arizona Territory.
Kathy Rolfe, 44, formed the club after holding a succession of jobs involving stress training, after observing legions of unhappy, anxiety-ridden people made miserable by their jobs.
UN relief officials said 30,000 refugees were still marooned in miserable conditions after the Croatian government refused them entry to territory it controls.
It's all the same to Mr. Baez, though, as he weeps softly by the back door of his miserable hut.
Although Mr. Pothitos wasn't specific about how franchisees might fight a management-led buy-out, he said, "One thousand unhappy franchisees can make life miserable for a potential buyer or seller."
They average seven out of 10 on the National Energy Foundation efficiency scale compared with a miserable national average of four.
A member of parliament on Friday predicted a famine if radical agricultural reform is not undertaken in the next year, and he blamed bureaucrats for the miserable performance of Soviet farms.
It's a miserable life." Among her meager possessions was a tattered blue book on legal rights of the homeless printed by the Legal Aid Society.
A foreign visitor will be far more miserable without the right clothing at this time of year than without a French phrase book.
He was unemployed for nine miserable months.
I expected to be more miserable, more panic struck," he said. "I discovered I'm pretty good in panic situations.
Latin America's export performance in the last half-century has been miserable.
He is a noble failure, a man who chooses to regard his miserable life as an epic, in which he plays the Marshalsea's monarch and his children are the royal family.
The impetus for the New York law and similar laws in most states is the simple observation that our criminal-justice system works brilliantly for criminals, but is a miserable failure for victims.
The lives of the rich and famous are sometimes made miserable by the demands of celebrity-recipe seekers.
In northern and western Los Angeles County, Supervisor Mike Antonovich was challenged by candidates who said he has allowed developers to make their lives miserable.

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