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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "With the conduct of that wretched Butler man you've been harboring."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!"
-- The wretched man trifled with his glass,--took it up, looked at it through the light, put it down,--prolonged my misery.
-- I considered Mr. Pumblechook wretched company.
-- What could the wretched Joe do now, after his disregarded parenthetical interruptions, but stand up to his journeyman, and ask him what he meant by interfering betwixt himself and Mrs. Joe; and further whether he was man enough to come on?
-- Truly it was impossible to dissociate her presence from all those wretched hankerings after money and gentility that had disturbed my boyhood,--from all those ill-regulated aspirations that had first made me ashamed of home and Joe,--from all those visions that had raised her face in the glowing fire, struck it out of the iron on the anvil, extracted it from the darkness of night to look in at the wooden window of the forge, and flit away.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried the bear; 'it is a wretched palace, and you are not King's children, you are disreputable children!'
-- At last he said: 'Oh, you wretched beard-cleaner, you piebald fool, you hungry mouse-hunter, what can you be thinking of?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- that I knew too well upon what solid reasons all the deter-minations of the wise Houyhnhnms were founded, not to be shaken by arguments of mine, a miserable Yahoo; and therefore, after presenting him with my humble thanks for the offer of his servants' assistance in making a vessel, and desiring a reasonable time for so difficult a work, I told 359him I would endeavour to preserve a wretched being; and if ever I returned to England, was not without hopes of being useful to my own species, by celebrating the praises of the renowned Houyhnhnms, and proposing their virtues to the imitation of mankind.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wretched ignorance with which Jupe clung to this consolation, rejecting the superior comfort of knowing, on a sound arithmetical basis, that her father was an unnatural vagabond, filled Mr. Gradgrind with pity.
-- How it came to pass that any people found it worth their while to sell or buy the wretched little toys, mixed up in its window with cheap newspapers and pork (there was a leg to be raffled for to-morrow-night), matters not here.
-- Then the wretched boy looked cautiously up and found her gone, crept out of bed, fastened his door, and threw himself upon his pillow again: tearing his hair, morosely crying, grudgingly loving her, hatefully but impenitently spurning himself, and no less hatefully and unprofitably spurning all the good in the world.
-- 'But,' said Mr. Gradgrind, slowly, and with hesitation, as well as with a wretched sense of happiness, 'if I see reason to mistrust myself for the past, Louisa, I should also mistrust myself for the present and the future.
-- Mr. Bounderby silently gazed about him for some moments, in every direction except Mrs. Sparsit's direction; and then, abruptly turning upon the niece of Lady Scadgers, said to that wretched woman:'Now, ma'am!We shall be happy to hear any little apology you may think proper to offer, for going about the country at express pace, with no other luggage than a Cock-and-a-Bull, ma'am!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had scarcely time to put down the wretched documents before my uncle was by my side.
-- One wretched hope sustained me now.
-- These wretched and miserable huts excited in us such pity that we felt half disposed to leave alms at every door.
-- "This wretched want of water," he said, "is the sole obstacle to the success of my project.
-- We are utterly unprepared for a sea voyage; it is simply madness to think of performing a journey of five hundred leagues upon a wretched pile of beams, with a counterpane for a sail, a paltry stick for a mast, and a tempest to contend with.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This wretched place!'
-- Yet, if you were poor and wretched you HAD to care.
-- Constance sat on the bank arid looked at the wretched and trampled bluebells.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Mother, breaking out again, "when I saw all those children ranged tier above tier, and appealing from the father none of them has ever known on earth, to the great Father of us all in Heaven, I thought, does any wretched mother ever come here, and look among those young faces, wondering which is the poor child she brought into this forlorn world, never through all its life to know her love, her kiss, her face, her voice, even her name!"
-- In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters.
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