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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Totski sat looking miserable enough.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for your question, the hero of whom you ask is Agamemnon, son of Atreus, a good king and a brave soldier, brother-in-law as surely as that he lives, to my abhorred and miserable self.'
-- 'Argives,' he cried, 'cowardly miserable creatures, have you no shame to stand here like frightened fawns who, when they can no longer scud over the plain, huddle together, but show no fight?
-- And King Apollo answered, 'Lord of the earthquake, you would have no respect for me if I were to fight you about a pack of miserable mortals, who come out like leaves in summer and eat the fruit of the field, and presently fall life-less to the ground.
-- Miserable man that I am, I have had the bravest sons in all Troy noble Nestor, Troilus the daunt-less charioteer, and Hector who was a god among men, so that one would have thought he was son to an immortal yet there is not one of them left.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm a miserable tool," said Marvel.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once or twice as I stood waiting there for things to accomplish themselves, I could not resist an impulse to laugh at my miserable quandary.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It even prevailed over the miserable travesty of the song of Da-vid which the singer had selected from a volume of similar effusions, and caused the sense to be forgotten in the insin-uating harmony of the sounds.
-- While the others were busily occupied in seeking to gratify their childish passion for fin-ery, by plundering even the miserable effects of the scout, or had been searching with such bloodthirsty vengeance in their looks for their absent owner, Le Renard had stood at a little distance from the prisoners, with a demeanor so quiet and satisfied, as to betray that he had already effect-ed the grand purpose of his treachery.
-- But speak not a syllable; it is rare for a white voice to pitch itself properly in the woods, as we have seen by the example of that miserable devil, the singer.
-- Happily for the success of this delicate ad-venture, he had to deal with ears but little practised in the concord of sweet sounds, or the miserable effort would in-fallibly have been detected.
-- 'I took the imp for a Mingo, as I'm a miserable sinner!'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Panting a little in his haste, he told her how miserable he was; he besought her to have mercy on him; he promised, if she would forgive him, to do everything she wanted.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The settlers in Lincoln Island were no longer the miserable castaways thrown on the islet.
-- They were then mere castaways, not even knowing how they should preserve their miserable lives from the fury of the elements!And now, thanks to the knowledge of their captain, and their own intelligence, they were regular colonists, furnished with arms, tools, and instruments; they had been able to turn to their profit the animals, plants, and minerals of the island, that is to say, the three kingdoms of Nature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could form no comprehension of his character, unless he were one of those miserable wretches who, having made gain the sole end and object of their lives and having succeeded in amassing great riches, are constantly tortured by the dread of poverty, and beset by fears of loss and ruin.
-- At length they arrived, drenched with the rain and presenting a most miserable appearance, notwithstanding that Short had sheltered the child as well as he could under the skirts of his own coat, and they were nearly breathless from the haste they had made.
-- 'Left an infant by my parents, at an early age,' said Mr Swiveller, bewailing his hard lot, 'cast upon the world in my tenderest period, and thrown upon the mercies of a deluding dwarf, who can wonder at my weakness!Here's a miserable orphan for you.
-- Here,' said Mr Swiveller raising his voice to a high pitch, and looking sleepily round, 'is a miserable orphan!'
-- Lighting her candle, she retreated as silently as she had come, and, gaining her own room once more, sat up during the remainder of that long, long, miserable night.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A week after she had entered upon her duties, the oldest son neglected his studies and made life miserable for Maslova.
-- Then he was a courageous, free man, before whom opened endless possibilities; now he felt himself caught in the tenets of a stupid, idle, aimless, miserable life, from which there was no escape; aye, from which, for the most part, he would not escape.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Overworld people were to theirs.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or let me see suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once!Well, I shouldn't mind that much!I'd far rather go without them than eat them!
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