misery

英 ['m?z(?)r?] 美['m?z?ri]

反義詞

CET6TEM4IELTS考研中低頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?miseries;

misery 痛苦，悲慘

來自拉丁語miser,可憐的，可悲的，悲慘的。

misery: misery: [14] Latin miser meant ‘miserable, wretched’. From it were derived miseria ‘wretchedness’, source of English misery, and miserābilis ‘pitiable’, source of English miserable [16]. Fitting in with the general semantic pattern, English miser [16] (a direct nominalization of the Latin adjective) originally meant ‘wretched person’. But people who hoarded money were evidently viewed as being basically unhappy, and so right from the beginning miser was used for an ‘avaricious person’.
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misery (n.): late 14c., "condition of external unhappiness," from Old French misere "miserable situation, misfortune, distress" (12c.), from Latin miseria "wretchedness," from miser (see miser). Meaning "condition of one in great sorrow or mental distress" is from 1530s. Meaning "bodily pain" is 1825, American English.

1. They were sickened by the scenes of misery and degradation they found.: 目睹困苦、潦倒的景象，他們感到心里極不舒服。

2. Their energies were focussed on the alleviation of the refugees' misery.: 他們把精力集中在減輕難民們的苦難上。

3. All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.: 那筆錢帶來的只有傷心、痛苦和悲劇。

5. Her search for love has often caused her excruciating misery and loneliness.: 她對愛情的尋覓常常給她帶來極大的痛苦和孤獨感。