miserable是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 悲惨的; 使人难受的,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It is not often,' said the second of the three, addressing 46 A tale of two citiesMonsieur Defarge, 'that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine, or of anything but black bread and death.
-- After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the din-giest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingi-er by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar.
-- 'If it ever becomes mine, it shall be put into some hands better qualified to free it slowly (if such a thing is possible) from the weight that drags it down, so that the miserable people who cannot leave it and who have been long wrung to the last point of endurance, may, in another generation, suffer less; but it is not for me.
-- 'Ah, the unfortunate, miserable people!So oppressed, too as you say.'
-- I am so profound-ly interested in its miserable inhabitants.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Never had his age, with which, however, he was always grumbling, seemed so miserable as on this evening.
-- 'I should like some day, just for a trial, to take such nature upon me, and be a poet myself; I am very sure I should make no such miserable verses as the others.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He did not allow himself to think about it, and he did not think about it; but all the same though he never admitted it to himself, and had no proofs, not even suspicious evidence, in the bottom of his heart he knew beyond all doubt that he was a deceived husband, and he was profoundly miserable about it.
-- "Our life must go on as it has done in the past...." "That life was miserable enough in the old days; it has been awful of late.
-- My God!my God!Was ever a woman so miserable as I am?..."
-- Anna, on whom the position depended, and for whom it was more miserable than for anyone, endured it because she not merely hoped, but firmly believed, that it would all very soon be settled and come right.
-- "What are we all miserable for, when everything might be so happy?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year the miserable drug called opium, to the amount of one million four hundred thousand pounds thousands devoted to one of the most despicable vices which afflict humanity!The Chinese government has in vain attempted to deal with the evil by stringent laws.
-- This thought haunted him, and he never ceased cursing his miserable folly.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Leora and he had assured each other that, for a student affair, dinner jacket and black waistcoat would be the thing, as stated in the Benson, Hanley and Koch Chart of Correct Gents' Wearing Apparel, but he grew miserable at the sight of voluptuous white waistcoats, and when that embryo famous surgeon, Angus Duer, came by, disdainful as a greyhound and pushing on white gloves (which are the whitest, the most superciliously white objects on earth), then Martin felt himself a hobbledehoy.
-- You're working up to become perfectly miserable if you can't enjoy being miserable.
-- He was checked by the miserable way in which she sat brooding on the edge of her day couch, but he flung: "I'm not going to do it, even if I have to leave the Institute--and Holabird will just about make me quit.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He got two roubles from her and went into a miserable little tavern on his way home.
-- With the same amazement he stared at Raskolnikov, who lay undressed, dishevelled, unwashed, on his miserable dirty sofa, looking fixedly at him.
-- 406 Crime and PunishmentI was sitting to-day, feeling very heavy after a miserable dinner from a cookshop; I was sitting smoking, all of a sud-den Marfa Petrovna again.
-- They were lodging in a miserable little hole and had only just arrived from the country.
-- Sonia wrote further that in prison he shared the same room with the rest, that she had not seen the inside of their barracks, but concluded that they were crowded, miserable and unhealthy; that he slept on a plank bed with a rug under him and was unwilling to make any other arrangement.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Accordingly, when Mr. Peggotty came home about nine o'clock,this unfortunate Mrs. Gummidge was knitting in her corner, in avery wretched and miserable condition.
-- This made such a very miserable piece of business of it, that Irolled myself up in a corner of the counterpane, and cried myself tosleep.
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