wretched是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不幸的, 可怜的; 令人难受的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.
-- Here, then, the wretched man whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burn-ing people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of six-pence.
-- After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands to dig this wretched crea-ture out.
-- Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every frag-ment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat.
-- Crowds of the wicked and the wretched had been reflected in it, and had passed from its surface and this earth's together.
-- He looked to the spot where Defarge the vendor of wine had stood, a moment before; but the wretched father was 156 A tale of two citiesgrovelling on his face on the pavement in that spot, and the figure that stood beside him was the figure of a dark stout woman, knitting.
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：
-- Some wretched hovels for the Dutch sailors, resembling great boxes, and after which the place was named, lay about in confused disorder on the opposite bank.
-- 'It is really dreadful,' groaned he with increasing anxiety; 'I cannot recognise East Street again; there is not a single de-cent shop from one end to the other!Nothing but wretched huts can I see anywhere; just as if I were at Ringstead.
-- It was the most wretched misery, dragged from among the filthiest rags.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There, that's enough, that's enough!You're wretched too, I know.
-- Chapter 32 The particulars which the princess had learned in regard to Varenka's past and her relations with Madame Stahl were as follows: Madame Stahl, of whom some people said that she had worried her husband out of his life, while others said it was he who had made her wretched by his immoral behavior, had always been a woman of weak health and enthusiastic temperament.
-- He said respectfully, "nothing can be done, the peasants are such a wretched lot," and did nothing to help her.
-- She was not alone; all around was that luxurious setting of idleness that she was used to, and she felt less wretched than at home.
-- A wretched Russian nag they'll ruin, but keep good dray- horses--they won't ruin them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout jumped off the box and followed his master, who, after paying the cabman, was about to enter the station, when a poor beggar-woman, with a child in her arms, her naked feet smeared with mud, her head covered with a wretched bonnet, from which hung a tattered feather, and her shoulders shrouded in a ragged shawl, approached, and mournfully asked for alms.
-- "But the wretched creature did not seem to be making any resistance," observed Sir Francis.
-- Finding himself too wretched to remain alone, he knocked at Aouda's door, went into her room, seated himself, without speaking, in a corner, and looked ruefully at the young woman.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am glad you haf enough intelligence to understand that, no matter how wretched I talk!"
-- When Martin sought to show that they certainly knew very little about the superiority of fresh air to warmth in schools, about the hygienic dangers of dirty streets about the real danger of alcohol, about the value of face-masks in influenza epidemics, about most of the things they tub-thumped in their campaigns, Pickerbaugh merely became angry, and Martin wanted to resign, and saw Irving Watters again, and returned to Pickerbaugh with new zeal, and was in general as agitated and wretched as a young revolutionist discovering the smugness of his leaders.
-- They did take his working hours, they did scratch his belief that he was hard-hearted, but they implored him with such wretched timorousness that he could not get rid of them without making promises, and admitting afterward that to have been more cruel would have been less cruel.
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：
-- That wretched nag was to drag all the cartload of them at a gallop!Two young fellows in the cart were just getting whips ready to help Mikolka.
-- A wretched nag like that pulling such a cartload,' said another.
-- To think of a wretched little beast like that trying to kick!
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