The town presented a wretched appearance.
这个市镇呈现出一片凄凉的景象。
I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.
我从未见过有谁的境遇比他更凄惨。
She looked wretched and forlorn, despairing of the arrival of a friend who had promised to meet her.
她看上去又可怜又孤独，对于答应来看她的朋友的到来已不抱希望。
She had a wretched time of it at school.
她上学时的日子十分难熬。
That is the least the wretched people of Kenya have a right to expect from their friends abroad.
这是可怜的肯尼亚人民能够从他们的外国朋友那里得到最小的期望。
In the end, and under some pressure, he appears to have felt that a bad deal was better for his wretched compatriots than no deal at all.
最终，在某些压力下，他似乎意识到，对于他不幸的同胞来说，一项不好的交易总比什么交易都没有的好。
It means I can phone you on what for me is a dreary, wretched Sunday afternoon and for you is the eve of a deadline, knowing you will tell me to come right over, if only to watch you type.
这意味着我可以在一个痛苦的、沮丧的星期天的下午打电话给你即使那是你最后期限的前夜，也知道你会让我过来你身边，只要在你身旁看你打字就好。
In late October 1947, oppressed with "wretched health", Orwell recognised that his novel was still "a most dreadful mess and about two-thirds of it will have to be retyped entirely".
1947年十月下旬，烦于“糟透的病况”，奥威尔承认他的小说依然陷于“最艰难的困境以及还有三分之二的内容需要完全重新打过”。
I cannot picture myself in a more wretched condition.
我想像不出一个比这更悲惨的境地了。
But in the end, he seems to have decided that a bad deal was better for Zimbabwe's wretched people than no deal at all.
但看起来他最终还是作出了决定：对于饱受痛苦的津巴布韦人民来说，一个不太满意的结果总比什么没有要好。
Discovering that I was only self-possessed with peo - ple I knew intimately, I would often go to a strange house where I knew I would spend a wretched hour for schooling sake.
我发现，只有在面对熟人之时自己才能做到镇定自若，于是我便来到一座陌生的屋子，尽管知道这一个小时会很难熬，但毕竟能受教良多。
Throughout 2010 inflation ran at or above 3%. That is a pretty dismal record, but it will get even more wretched this year as inflation heads above 4%.
纵观2010年全年，通货膨胀持续保持或高于3%，这是个可怕的数字，但是今年它将更为令人痛苦，因为通货膨胀率将超过4%。
IT HAS been a thoroughly wretched summer in the rich world: weak growth, dismal jobs numbers and plunges in stockmarkets.
这个夏天已经完全变得倒霉透了：羸弱的增长，糟糕的就业数据以及股票市场的骤跌。
Even the wretched euro zone has a few racy emerging markets nearby.
甚至在低迷的欧元区附近也出现了少数的新兴市场。
Was there another such a wretched being as she in the world?
苔丝问自己，在这个世界上还有没有另外一个像她一样的可怜人？
With a wretched economy and long to-do list, it hardly seems an opportune moment.
但是凄凉的经济情况，加上长长的待办事项列表，实在很难找到个适当的时机。
In a recent report, ORC Worldwide, a consultancy, listed Lagos, with its violent crime, bad roads and wretched sanitation, as the world’s worst place for expatriates to live in.
美商全球人力资源咨询公司最近的一份报告将尼日利亚首都拉各斯——这个暴力犯罪横行、公路破烂、卫生条件恶劣之地——列为了世界上最不适宜侨民居住的地方。
As Steinbeck wrote: "How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children?"
正如斯坦贝克所写：“你怎能吓倒一个不仅自己肚皮空空如也，而且孩子饥肠辘辘的男人呢？你恐吓不了他的，因为他比任何人都清楚恐惧是什么东西。”
All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.
困苦人的日子都是愁苦；心中欢畅的，常享丰筵。
What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
他们住在济贫院里，过的生活真悲惨！
It was also a sign that technology need not create a "digital divide" : it can work wonders in some of the world's remotest, most wretched places.
这也是技术并非必然造成“数字鸿沟(digital divide)”[1]的一个信号：它可以在世界的某些最偏远、最悲惨的地方创造奇迹。
And she could not withstand the burden anymore: she declared in a wretched voice that yoga wasn't the answer either.
她再也承受不了这种负担：她用可怜的声音宣布，瑜伽也不是解决问题的办法。
Tess had moodily decided that either of these maidens would make a good farmer's wife, and that she ought to recommend them, and obscure her own wretched charms.
苔丝原是痛苦地下了决心，她们两个无论谁都能成为农场主的好妻子，她应该推荐她们，而且还要贬低自己不幸的姿色。
I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
我读过许多聪明人的文章，那些神秘的哲理塞满我的大脑，可是，找不到一朵红玫瑰却让自己的生活这样凄凉。
Look at it; after all, it is a wretched land.
总之，你看，这是一片贫乏的土地。
Look at it; after all, it is a wretched land.
总之，你看，这是一片贫乏的土地。
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