misery的意思|misery的解释-里氏词典

misery ['mizәri]

n. 痛苦, 悲惨, 不幸, 穷困

misery

[ noun ]

a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

<noun.state>

the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable

a feeling of intense unhappiness

<noun.feeling>

she was exhausted by her misery and grief

Misery \Mi"ser*y\, n.; pl. {Miseries}. [OE. miserie, L. miseria,
fr. miser wretched: cf. F. mis[`e]re, OF. also, miserie.]
1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind;
wretchedness; distress; woe. --Chaucer.

Destruction and misery are in their ways. --Rom.
iii. 16.

2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes. --Shak.

3. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. [Obs.]

Syn: Wretchedness; torture; agony; torment; anguish;
distress; calamity; misfortune.

The misery of Mozambique is an open book that can be read in many ways.
Already, U.S. officials see signs that the deepening economic misery could produce a tide of Cubans trying to force their way into the U.S.
Right now, though, it's just misery on parade.
The MCI found that middle managers tended to make the life of supervisors a misery, sabotaging them while at the same time branding them as the Achilles' heel of UK business.
"If we fight amongst each other, we will not be able to fight poverty, misery and squalor," said India's Chandra Shekhar, departing from his prepared text.
The U.S. must also urgently address the misery afflicting most inhabitants of Muslim countries, which underlies their endemic violence.
Compared with your self-wringing variety, real sufferers do not make eloquent speeches about the ironic relevance of their personal misery to larger questions of social policy (if they're black) or the meaning of existence (if they're white).
Gorbachev, who cut short a U.S. visit to fly to the stricken area, was chagrined by the ethnic politics amid such misery and by the Soviet press criticism of relief efforts as chaotic.
Chandra Shekhar, who replaced V.P. Singh on Nov. 10, promised to "bring this country out of a muddy mire of misery and misfortune."
Trying to be kind, they create more, rather than less, misery. The private sector alternative seems far cleaner.
The same model is responsible for most of the economic misery in the Third World, thanks to the International Monetary Fund.
Watson's rhetoric is purged of offensive racial references and cooled to a sympathetic refrain about the misery of dispossessed country folk forced to sell their youngsters' lifeblood to money-grubbing factory owners from the North.
Though Ershad gave Bangladesh a measure of political stability after a quick succession of military-installed presidents, he made little headway in alleviating the misery of his people.
If Marx and his followers had not arrogantly dismissed as 'unscientific' all speculation - other than their own asides - about the society of the future, we could have been spared some misery.
Thought for today: "One face to the world, another at home makes for misery." _ Amy Vanderbilt, American etiquette expert (1908-1974).
Popper, save us from this misery.
The march, which involves various small Indian tribes, has captivated the attention of Bolivians by exposing the misery of the oft-neglected tribes from the isolated lowlands of interior Bolivia.
Instead, they found misery, exploitation and an agonizing death," he said. "These 146 workers didn't have to die.
A tornado brought more misery Monday night, injuring three people and destroying several homes near the west Texas city of Abilene.
LU says this is 'the skill of avoiding confrontational situations' as well as knowing when 'to use discretion in implementing the penalty'. Among the inspectors on the Northern line - popularly known as the 'misery line' - is Ms Nike Omolokun.
Politicians focus on poverty because it seems amenable to a definitive solution, yet by ignoring the real causes of happiness and misery, they only end up creating programs that make life worse.
There is nothing unemphatic or unduly modest about what we see, and no English Missery (I'm tempted to write 'English misery').
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum waxed eloquent on the issue, saying "Congress has no right to put a price on human misery."
"China has to know our moral reaction (to last year's violence) but, if they go into misery and confusion, who's going to suffer?" Watanabe said.
On Wednesday it announces its grants for 1994-95 and will probably share the misery of reduced funding equally among the nation's arts companies.
"Instead of saving the country, bureaucratic capitalism can only drive the masses of the Chinese people into an abyss of misery," said the commentary, reprinted Saturday in the official China Daily.
"It's a desire to put them out of their misery rather than an attempt to harvest them," Carroll said.
A move to a competitive level for sterling is inevitable if this country is to survive, and a postponement for one, two or more years (as after 1925) will merely prolong the misery of 10 per cent unemployment for that long.
European countries retaliated and the consequent decline in trade did much to prolong the economic misery.
If misery loves company, The Cure must be pretty pleased, in a melancholy sort of way.

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