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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The student chattered on, saying that she had a sister Lizaveta, whom the wretched little creature was continually beating, and kept in complete bondage like a small child, though Lizaveta was at least six feet high.
-- Hang the new life!Good Lord, how stupid it is!芒聙娄 And what lies I told to-day!How despicably I fawned upon that wretched Ilya Petrovitch!But that is all folly!What do I care for them all, and my fawning upon them!It is not that at all!It is not that at all!'
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.
-- 250'Let the wretched man who now addresses you, my dearCopperfield, be a beacon to you through life.
-- Making thesame low, dreary, wretched moaning in her shawl, she went away.
-- And yet, wretched cripple as I made myself by this act of homageto Dora, I walked miles upon miles daily in the hope of seeing her.
-- 'No, Rosa, not a word!Let the man listen to what I say!My son,who has been the object of my life, to whom its every thought hasbeen devoted, whom I have gratified from a child in every wish,from whom I have had no separate existence since his birth,- totake up in a moment with a miserable girl, and avoid me!To repaymy confidence with systematic deception, for her sake, and quit mefor her!To set this wretched fancy, against his mother's claimsupon his duty, love, respect, gratitude- claims that every day andhour of his life should have strengthened into ties that nothingcould be proof against!Is this no injury?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XVIThe hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable. It was a wretched business indeed! Such an overthrow of every thing she had been wishing for! Such a development of every thing most unwelcome! Such a blow for Harriet! that was the worst of all.
-- Still, however, affection was glad to catch at any reasonable excuse for not hurrying on the wretched mo-ment.
-- 'I have made a most wretched discovery,' said he, after a short pause. 'I have been here a week to-morrow half my time.
-- Mrs. Weston proposed having no regular supper; mere-ly sandwiches, &c., set out in the little room; but that was scouted as a wretched suggestion.
-- This wretched note was the finale of Emma's break-fast.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took for earnest what you insist was jest, and now this that I pray to be jest you say is awful, wretched earnest.
-- Wretched woman deluded woman you are, Bathsheba!"
-- Here, under the table, and leaning against forms and chairs in every conceivable attitude except the perpendicular, were the wretched persons of all the work-folk, the hair of their heads at such low levels being suggestive of mops and brooms.
-- "Yes, if it hadn't been for that wretched rain I should have cleared two hundred as easy as looking, my love," he was saying.
-- Three booths were blown over, and the wretched folk inside crawled out upon their hands and knees; and in the next field were as many as a dozen hats at one time.
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.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.
-- I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a jour-ney, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.
-- The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw ob-scurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.
-- During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture.
-- Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched vic-tim.
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