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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dirk had not been to the studio since the wretched morning on which they had taken Blanche to the hospital.
-- But he did not have a chance to speak to him, since, as he entered the common-room, a monk came in with a huge Bible in his arms, mounted a pulpit which was at the end of the room, and began the service which the wretched outcasts had to endure as the price of their lodging.
-- The Chink's Head was a name the beach-combers gave to a wretched inn off the Rue Bouterie, kept by a one-eyed Chinaman, where for six sous you could sleep in a cot and for three on the floor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a wretched repast, but still it was better than nothing.
-- So saying, he offered the poor Negro a few handfuls of shell-fish, which was indeed wretched and insufficient food.
-- said the boy, and very cleverly, without breaking it, he managed to draw out the wretched yet precious little bit of wood which was of such great importance to these poor men.
-- He ate the wretched food with appetite, and washed it down with a little fresh water, drawn from the river in an immense shell.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Only sighed, and dropped his head, and seemed so sad and wretched that if you could have seen him I am sure you must have cried; you could not have helped it more than I, I know.
-- The room in which Kit sat himself down, in this condition, was an extremely poor and homely place, but with that air of comfort about it, nevertheless, which or the spot must be a wretched one indeed cleanliness and order can always impart in some degree.
-- 'I would, indeed, mother, and unless you want to make me feel very wretched and uncomfortable, you'll keep that bow on your bonnet, which you'd more than half a mind to pull off last week.
-- Mrs Jiniwin being very fond of cards was carefully excluded by her son-in-law from any participation in the game, and had assigned to her the duty of occasionally replenishing the glasses from the case-bottle; Mr Quilp from that moment keeping one eye constantly upon her, lest she should by any means procure a taste of the same, and thereby tantalising the wretched old lady (who was as much attached to the case-bottle as the cards) in a double degree and most ingenious manner.
-- The water was trickling out of a leaky butt, and a most wretched cat was lapping up the drops with the sickly eagerness of starvation.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The commander was a liberal-minded man, entirely absorbed with the struggles, and knew nothing about his wretched family life.
-- "Papa is not home," angrily said a pale, wretched looking girl with puffed-up hair and blue spots under her eyes, who came to the door.
-- Scarcely had the door closed when the same vigorous, merry sound, so inappropriate to the place and so persistently rehearsed by the wretched girl, was heard.
-- That is to say, the lawyer was a wretched one, and he let slip all the grounds of appeal."
-- "A long time ago I made the acquaintance of a girl teacher, a very wretched creature.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I even tried a Carlyle-like scorn of this wretched aristocracy in decay.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then it struck sharp on the inn door, and then we could hear the handle being turned and the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter; and then there was a long time of silence both within and without.
-- "Livesey," said the squire, "you will give up this wretched practice at once.
-- I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker.
-- It went to all our hearts, I think, to leave them in that wretched state; but we could not risk another mutiny; and to take them home for the gibbet would have been a cruel sort of kindness.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wretched inmates!'
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