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单词 wretchedness
释义
wretchedness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈretʃ.ɪd.nəs/us
/ˈretʃ.ɪd.nəs/
thestateof beingunpleasantor oflowquality:
不幸，可怜；肮脏，恶劣
He couldn'tstandthe wretchedness oflifeathome.他无法忍受家里的悲惨生活。
They weredoomedto alifeof wretchedness andslavery.他们注定要过悲惨和奴役的生活。
thefeelingof beingillor veryunhappy:
病得厉害；非常不快
Shewokeearly in astateof wretchedness.她早早地就在一种悲哀的状态中醒来。
Mum's wretchedness was thepriceDad hadchosentopayfor hishappiness.妈妈的悲惨遭遇是爸爸为自己的幸福而让她付出的代价。
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  • Theywantedtoraisethemselves out of wretchedness andpoverty.
  • The owngoalsummed up the wretchedness of hisgame.
  • Hestudiesdrugsthat canalleviateflu's wretchedness.
  • How much of the narrator's wretchedness can weattributetojealousy?
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Not fit & healthy
Feeling sad and unhappy
(Definition ofwretchednessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwretchedness

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Then the prisoners begin to feel thewretchednessof their condition.
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All loves of after life can never bring its rapture, or itswretchedness; no bliss so absorbing, no pangs of jealousy or despair so crushing and so keen!
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A countenance so emaciated, so expressive of utter, hopelesswretchednessshe had never hitherto beheld, yet there was something silly and almost idiotic in the eye, painful to look on.
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As we all know, we have been suffering from a freeze-up, and from many inconveniences and muchwretchedness, following upon the shortage of fuel.
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That has been the main cause of thewretchednessof all our tenement buildings.
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I have seen them disappointed when food does not arrive because of thewretchednessof communications.
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It was overcrowded and full of intense poverty andwretchedness.
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They will be asking why industrial progress involves them in greaterwretchedness.
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This time it is a war against unemployment, with all thewretchednessand misery it brings in its wake.
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It is no use for people to talk about a worldhabeas corpusto overcome thewretchednessof the political prisoner.
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It is difficult to imagine the utterwretchednessof that man's unfortunate situation.
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This is the only way to put an end to this unscrupulous exploitation of humanwretchedness.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The landlords for generations past have driven out the poor crofters, and have inflicted upon those of them that remained poverty,wretchednessand misery.
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I would cheerfully given away the rights of other groups to the homeless because of thewretchednessof their circumstances.
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The misery andwretchednessof these people really deserve some consideration.
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