miserable /ˈmɪzərəbəl/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  ADJ If you are miserable, you are very unhappy. 痛苦的

  例：

  I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable.

  我连着干了几份工资很低的秘书工作，这让我感到真的很痛苦。

• 2. 

  miserably ADV 痛苦地

  例：

  He looked miserably down at his plate.

  他痛苦地低头看着自己的盘子。

• 3. 

  ADJ If you describe a place or situation as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel unhappy or depressed. 令人忧伤的

  例：

  There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him.

  在这个令人忧伤的地方，根本没什么东西可以转移他的注意力。

• 4. 

  ADJ If you describe the weather as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull. 阴冷多雨的

  例：

  On a grey, wet, miserable day our teams congregated in Port Townsend.

  在灰暗、潮湿而又阴冷的一天，我们几队人聚集在了汤森港。

• 5. 

  ADJ If you describe someone as miserable, you mean that you do not like them because they are bad-tempered or unfriendly. 脾气不好的; 不友好的 [ADJ n]

  例：

  He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else, not even to pass the time of day.

  他总是不友好。他从不和我说话，也不和别人说话，那怕是为了打发时光。

• 6. 

  ADJ You can describe a quantity or quality as miserable when you think that it is much smaller or worse than it ought to be. 少得可怜的 [强调]

  例：

  Our speed over the ground was a miserable 2.2 knots.

  我们在地面上的速度只有区区的2.2节。

• 7. 

  miserably ADV 少得可怜地 [ADV adj]

  例：

  ...the miserably inadequate supply of books now provided for schools.

  …现在提供给学校的书籍少得可怜。

• 8. 

  ADJ A miserable failure is a very great one. 惨痛的 [ADJ n] [强调]

  例：

  The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States.

  这部电影在意大利和美国票房收入都遭到了惨败。

• 9. 

  miserably ADV 悲惨地 [ADV with v]

  例：

  Some manage it. Some fail miserably.

  有人成功了。有些人败得很惨。