misery的经典引文

1. 不幸
2. 苦难
3. 痛苦
4. 穷困
5. 老发牢骚的人
6. 悲惨的境遇
7. 疼痛
8. 忧愁

1. [U]痛苦,苦恼,苦难 great suffering or discomfort
2. [P]痛苦的事,不幸 painful happening; great misfortune
3. [C]常发牢骚的人 a person who is always complaining

1.苦难;痛苦;不幸
Misery is great unhappiness.

e.g. All that money brought nothing but sadness andmisery and tragedy.
那笔钱带来的只有伤心、痛苦和悲剧。
e.g. ...the miseries of his youth.
他年轻时遭受的不幸

2.穷困;悲惨的境遇
Misery is the way of life and unpleasant living conditions of people who are very poor.

misery什么意思

e.g. A tiny, educated elite profited from themisery of their two million fellow countrymen.
一小撮受过良好教育的精英分子从他们200万同胞的贫苦生活中获取利益。

3.牢骚满腹者;爱抱怨的人
If you say that someone is amisery, you are critical of them because they are always com-plaining.

e.g. I'm not such amisery now! I gave up drink a few years back and that has changed things a lot.
我现在已经不喜欢抱怨了。几年之前我戒了酒，整个人就大不一样了。

4.使生活痛苦;使日子不好过
If someonemakes yourlife a misery, they behave in an unpleasant way towards you over a period of time and make you very unhappy.

misery什么意思

e.g. ...the gangs of kids who make our lives amisery.
弄得我们日子不得安宁的那几帮孩子

5.(告诉某人其急于想知道的事)消除…的忧虑
If youput someoneout of theirmisery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know.

e.g. Please put me out of mymisery. How do you do it?
别让我着急了。你是怎样做的？

6.将(动物)人工致死以结束其痛苦
If youput an animalout of itsmisery, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed.

put out of sb's misery

使…不再担忧〔疑虑〕end sb's anxiety or suspense

• bear the misery忍受痛苦
• bring misery带来不幸
• cause misery引起不幸
• create〔produce〕 misery制造不幸
• relieve〔suffer〕 misery解除〔遭受〕痛苦

• deep misery深重的苦难
• life-long misery一生的苦难
• untold misery无法形容的痛苦

• human misery人类的苦难

• die in great misery死于极度贫困之中
• live in misery and want生活在贫穷困苦之中
• put the animal out of its misery解除动物的痛苦

• the misery of slums贫民区中的悲惨情况
• the -ries of mankind人类的苦难

misery, agony, torment

这组词均可指精神或肉体上的“痛苦”。其区别是：

torment强调精神上的痛苦和烦恼; misery和agony则既可指肉体上的痛苦,也可指精神上的痛苦, misery强调长期性,有绝望的意味。

下面两个句子意思相同:

It was sheer misery to live there!

It was sheer misery living there!

住在那个地方真叫人讨厌!

agony，anguish，torment，torture，grief，misery，distress，sorrow

这些名词均有“苦恼、痛苦”之意。

agony侧重指精神或身体痛苦的剧烈程度。

anguish指精神方面令人难以忍受的极度痛苦；用于身体时，多指局部或暂时的痛苦。

torment强调烦恼或痛苦的长期性。

torture语气比toment强，指在精神或肉体上受到的折磨所产生的痛苦。

grief指由某种特殊处境或原因造成的强烈的感情上的苦恼与悲痛。

misery着重痛苦的可悲状态，多含不幸、可怜或悲哀的意味。

distress多指因思想上的压力紧张、恐惧、忧虑等所引起的精神上的痛苦，也可指某种灾难带来的痛苦。

sorrow语气比grief弱，指因不幸、损失或失望等所产生的悲伤。