misery是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 痛苦, 悲惨, 不幸,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I did not mean, I was not thinking of the slave-trade,' replied Jane; 'governess-trade, I assure you, was all that I had in view; widely different certainly as to the guilt of those who carry it on; but as to the greater misery of the vic-tims, I do not know where it lies.
-- Such a change!In one moment such a change!From perfect misery to perfect happiness!'
-- ' Those were the words; in them lay the tormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business to her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Oh, I love him to very distraction and misery and agony!Don't be frightened at me, though perhaps I am enough to frighten any innocent woman.
-- "Oh, how I wish I had never seen him!Loving is misery for women always.
-- Bad as I am, I am not such a villain as to make the marriage or misery of any woman a matter of huckster and sale.
-- Not for worlds now could she give a hint about her misery to him, much less ask him plainly for information on the cause of Fanny's death.
-- A runaway wife is an encumbrance to everybody, a burden to herself and a byword all of which make up a heap of misery greater than any that comes by staying at home though this may include the trifling items of insult, beating, and starvation.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed, the man appeared to have been one of the beasts of burden in our great social mill; one of those Parisian Ratons whom their Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of those men, in short, at sight of whom we are prompted to remark that, "After all, we cannot do without them."
-- There was not one of them but would have passed a blind man begging in the street, not one that felt moved to pity by a tale of misfortune, not one who did not see in death the solution of the all-absorbing problem of misery which left them cold to the most terrible anguish in others.
-- For those narrow souls, or for careless youth, the misery in Father Goriot's withered face and its dull apathy were 莽卢卢14 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 quite incompatible with wealth or any sort of intelligence.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery without feeling the most poignant grief?
-- Yet, although unhappy, he is not so utterly occupied by his own misery but that he interests himself deeply in the projects of others.
-- Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
-- But when he entered, misery and despair alone welcomed him.
-- Alas!I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And her heart went up to God in sincerethankfulness that a pathway for her feet had been opened out of her misery and straight to the arms of Ashley.
-- Most of the misery of the world has been caused bywars.
-- Never before had she seen so much misery in anyone's face.
-- his face full of the mute misery of oneforced to face realities when realities are agonies.
-- And that is why I'm here who have no love ofdeath or misery or glory and no hatred for anyone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "My dear!Believe this: when she first came to me, I meant to save her from misery like my own.
-- And then, "When she first came, I meant to save her from misery like mine."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapun-zel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness.
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