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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, if it wasn't the accent, that wretched accent!"
-- 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.
-- The bridge was intentionally opened, and not left open by the negligence of the guard; and connecting with this fact the guard's disappearance, we may conclude that the wretched fellow was an accomplice of these ruffians."
-- John Mangles therefore hoped that the wretched hull would reach port without accident; but it grieved him that his companions should have to suffer so much discomfort from the defective arrangements of the brig.
-- The captain could not be relied on to restrain them; the wretched man tore his hair and wrung his hands.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There,' she says, 'take your ear-rings, you wretched old miser; although they are ten times dearer than their value to me now that I know what it must have cost Parfen to get them!Give Parfen my compliments,' she says, 'and thank him very much!'
-- MWhat must her feelings have been when she heard that Prince Muishkin, the last of his and her line, had arrived in beggar's guise, a wretched idiot, a recipient of charity all of which details the general gave out for greater effect!He was anxious to steal her interest at the first swoop, so as to distract her thoughts from other matters nearer home.
-- 'Oh, that wretched donkey again, I see!'
-- I thought of asking you to draw the face of a criminal, one minute be-fore the fall of the guillotine, while the wretched man is still standing on the scaffold, preparatory to placing his neck on the block.'
-- The priest, who seemed to be a wise man, had stopped talking now, and only held the cross for the wretched fellow to kiss.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Adamas then sought shelter under cover of his men, but Meriones followed after and hit him with a spear midway between the private parts and the navel, where a wound is particualrly painful to wretched mortals.
-- Yet when he hears of you being still alive, he is glad, and his days are full of hope that he shall see his dear son come home to him from Troy; but I, wretched man that I am, had the bravest in all Troy for my sons, and there is not one of them left.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the day of its publication a wretched dog, flayed and otherwise mutilat-ed, escaped from Moreau's house.
-- The red body of the wretched little beast was rent to pieces, many of the ribs stripped white, and the backbone indisputably gnawed.
-- We had pinned the wretched brute into a corner of the island.
-- They were wretched in themselves; the old animal hate moved them to trouble one another; the Law held them back from a brief hot struggle and a decisive end to their natural animosities.
-- Then I shut the door, locked it, and went into the enclosure where Moreau lay beside his latest victims, the staghounds and the llama and some other wretched brutes, with his massive face calm even after his terrible death, and with the hard eyes open, staring at the dead white moon above.
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：
-- 'Can we do aught to assist the wretched man?'
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：
-- It's impossible to leave him in that wretched hole."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would have been utterly wretched in her fear of not gaining his affection, of losing his interest, of being swept away and left without an anchorage.
-- She was constantly pained by the sight of the white- faced, ragged men who slopped desperately by her in a sort of wretched mental stupor.
-- It looked as if she were certain to be a wretched failure.
-- He was moody when he got back to the box, and could not talk for thinking of his wretched situation.
-- He himself realized that it was a wretched thing to have dragged in.
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