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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I should be very miserable andunhappy if anybody was to go.
-- Two miserable little white mice, left behind by theirowner, are running up and down in a fusty castle made ofpasteboard and wire, looking in all the corners with their red eyesfor anything to eat.
-- Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless idol, how abject wewere to him!What a launch in life I think it now, on looking back,to be so mean and servile to a man of such parts and pretensions!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Woodhouse would have been miserable had his daughter attempted it, and she was therefore safe from either exciting or receiving unpleas-ant and most unsuitable ideas.
-- They burst on him, I do not know how, but by some letter or message and it was the discovery of what she was doing, of this very project of hers, which determined him to come forward at once, own it all to his uncle, throw himself on his kindness, and, in short, put an end to the miserable state of concealment that had been carrying on so long.'
-- ' but checking himself 'No, no, I understand you forgive me I am pleased that you can say even so much. He is no object of regret, indeed!and it will not be very long, I hope, before that becomes the acknowledgment of more than your reason. Fortunate that your affections were not farther entangled! I could never, I confess, from your manners, assure myself as to the degree of what you felt I could only be certain that there was a preference and a preference which I never believed him to deserve. He is a disgrace to the name of man. And is he to be rewarded with that sweet young woman? Jane, Jane, you will be a miserable creature.'
-- I was the most miserable wretch!'
-- 'Not quite so miserable as to be insensible to mirth.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Henery Fray spoke, exhibiting miserable eyes at the same time: "I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles, and don't want a home; for 'tis keeping another woman out.
-- I am soon going back again to the miserable monotony of drill and perhaps our regiment will be ordered out soon.
-- "I must let it out to somebody; it is wearing me away!Don't you yet know enough of me to see through that miserable denial of mine?
-- Dear, dear I don't know what I am doing since this miserable ache of my heart has weighted and worn upon me so!What shall I come to!I suppose I shall get further and further into troubles.
-- When I am dead they'll say, miserable love-sick man that he was.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The chairs are broken-down invalids; the wretched little hempen mats slip away from under your feet without slipping away for good; and finally, the foot-warmers are miserable wrecks, hingeless, charred, broken away about the holes.
-- Vauquer had made various improvements in the three rooms destined for his use, in consideration of a certain sum paid in advance, so it was said, for the miserable furniture, that is to say, for some yellow cotton curtains, a few chairs of stained wood covered with Utrecht velvet, several wretched colored prints in frames, and wall papers that a little suburban tavern would have disdained.
-- A miserable five-franc piece.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animat-ed glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.
-- I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became con-vulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch the miserable monster whom I had created.
-- Alas, Victor!I now say, Thank God she did not live to wit-ness the cruel, miserable death of her youngest darling!
-- He can no longer be a subject for pity; we must reserve that for his miserable survivors.'
-- I relied on your innocence, and although I was then very wretched, I was not so miserable as I am now.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "If I didn't do so much for those trashy Slatterys that they'd have to pay money for elsewhere," fumed Gerald,"they'd be willing to sell me their miserable few acres of swamp bottom, and the County would be well rid of them."
-- By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed andlooked after in sickness and old age.
-- Scarlett rocked back and forth, lonely, miserable since reading the news from Tara, wishing that someone,anyone, even Mrs. Merriwether, were with her.
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