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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this drenching, shivering state, and worn out with fatigue, they came toward evening to a miserable RANCHO, which could only have been called a shelter by people not very fastidious, and certainly only travelers in extremity would even have entered it; but Glenarvan and his companions had no choice, and were glad enough to burrow in this wretched hovel, though it would have been despised by even a poor Indian of the Pampas.
-- A miserable fire of grass was kindled, which gave out more smoke than heat, and was very difficult to keep alight, as the torrents of rain which dashed against the ruined cabin outside found their way within and fell down in large drops from the roof.
-- He spent a miserable existence there—not that he was ill-treated, but the natives themselves lived miserably.
-- Ayrton would doubtless have found himself very much embarrassed if a little inn, a miserable public house, had not suddenly presented itself.
-- A miserable network of bare branches was seen above two hundred feet high in the air.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was not a matter of LOVE at all!If only you knew what a miserable creature she was, you would have pitied her, just as I did.
-- One day she could not go out at all, and remained at home all alone in the empty hut; but the children very soon became aware of the fact, and nearly all of them visited her that day as she lay alone and helpless in her miserable bed.
-- 'For Heaven's sake, forgive me!You see what a miserable plight I am in, but you hardly know anything of the facts of the case as yet.
-- He felt that though he had but applied to this miserable old drunkard because he saw no other way of getting to Nastasia Philipovna's, yet he had been very wrong to put the slightest confidence in such a man.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now I was once more delivered from the most miserable of all conditions of life; and what to do next with myself I was to consider.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was so miserable when he left us at Longstaple, to go to you, that I was afraid you would think him quite ill.""Did he come from your uncle's, then, when he visited us?"
-- His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise.
-- We seem so beset with difficulties on every side, that though it would make us miserable for a time, we should be happier perhaps in the end.
-- She instantly begged her sister would entreat Lady Middleton to take them home, as she was too miserable to stay a minute longer.
-- Did I imitate your forbearance, or lessen your restraints, by taking any part in those offices of general complaisance or particular gratitude which you had hitherto been left to discharge alone? No; not less when I knew you to be unhappy, than when I had believed you at ease, did I turn away from every exertion of duty or friendship; scarcely allowing sorrow to exist but with me, regretting only that heart which had deserted and wronged me, and leaving you, for whom I professed an unbounded affection, to be miserable for my sake."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The foreman became a true ogre, prowling constantly about, keeping her tied down to her miserable task.
-- This seemed a miserable arrangement.
-- Hurstwood, on the contrary, saw in the strength of her new attractiveness his miserable predicament.
-- She was wondering why that miserable thought must be brought in.
-- She was struck as by a blade with the miserable provision which was outside the pale of marriage.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got to feeling so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead.
-- It took away all the uncomfortableness and we felt mighty good over it, because it would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others.
-- And at last, when it hit me all of a sudden that here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and letting me know my wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in heaven,whilst I was stealing a poor old woman's nigger that hadn't ever done me no harm, and now was showing me there's One that's always on the lookout, and ain't a- go-ing to allow no such miserable doings to go only just so fur and no further, I most dropped in my tracks I was so scared.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you want one hundred, a thousand, two thousand gold pieces for your miserable five?"
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