He never married and his last years were made wretched by anxiety over a ne'er do-well nephew (who was his ward) by poverty and by increasing ill health.

他终身未娶，晚年还过得很惨，他为不争气的侄子操碎了心，经济上极不宽裕，身体一日不如一日。

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Poor countries are often defined by their weak health, education and income measures, but conditions in Somalia are mostly too wretched to record.

国家往往因卫生、教育和收入指标低而被定义为贫穷，但是索马里的条件实在太恶劣，以至于无从记录。

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But by any reasonable measure the Thais are massively richer, freer and happier than the wretched Burmese are.

但自从采取了合理的措施之后，泰国人比不幸的缅甸人富裕的多，自由的多，也快乐的多。

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One might think this was because liberals were made wretched by George Bush.

ECONOMIST: Why conservatives are happier than liberals

Only the euro frustrates the prime minister's sense that he is back in command of events (those wretched five tests invigilated by the brooding Mr Brown, and the little matter of having to win a referendum).

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

His response is that experience alone, whether wretched or comic, has by chance furnished him with the correct answers, and the bulk of the film, constructed from flashbacks, proves his point.

NEWYORKER: Slumdog Millionaire