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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twice over in the early part of the century, Amsterdam Island became the country of deserted sailors, providentially saved from misery and death; but since these events no vessel had been lost on its coast.
-- "I am going to snatch my brothers from misery and ignorance.
-- Misery deadened the pangs of hunger.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, what should you get but disgrace and misery if you took a wife you hated into your family (for I know very well that you do hate me)?
-- 'It is quite natural,' he said in conclusion, 'considering the state of misery he was in, that he should have thought of murdering these six peo-ple; which of you, gentlemen, would not have done the same in his place?''
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Only one thing could I see clearly before me the cold exposure and misery of the snowstorm and the night.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day, the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You dare not, you cannot deny, that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, and the other to its de-rision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.'
-- Very frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and Lydia, whose own misery was extreme, and who could not comprehend such hard-heartedness in any of the family.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
-- this was but a taste of the misery I was to go through, as will appear in the sequel of this story.
-- As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy view I had of being a rich and thriving man in my new plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate desire of rising faster than the nature of the thing admitted; and thus I cast myself down again into the deepest gulf of human misery that ever man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with life and a state of health in the world.
-- Some days after this, and after I had been on board the ship, and got all that I could out of her, yet I could not for-bear getting up to the top of a little mountain and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship; then fancy at a vast dis-tance I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and then after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
-- When I came a little out of that part of the island I stood still awhile, as amazed, and then, recovering myself, I looked up with the utmost affection of my soul, and, with a flood of tears in my eyes, gave God thanks, that had cast my first lot in a part of the world where I was distinguished from such dreadful creatures as these; and that, though I had esteemed my present condition very miserable, had yet given me so many comforts in it that I had still more to give thanks for than to complain of: and this, above all, that I had, even in this miserable condition, been comforted with the knowledge of Himself, and the hope of His blessing: which was a felicity more than sufficiently equivalent to all the misery which I had suffered, or could suffer.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To quit the neighbourhood of Norland was no longer an evil; it was an object of desire; it was a blessing, in comparison of the misery of continuing her daughter-in-law's guest; and to remove for ever from that beloved place would be less painful than to inhabit or visit it while such a woman was its mistress.
-- Elinor's compassion for him increased, as she had reason to suspect that the misery of disappointed love had already been known to him.
-- You had rather look out for misery for Marianne, and guilt for poor Willoughby, than an apology for the latter.
-- In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.
-- With difficulty however could she prevent her from following him herself; and to persuade her to check her agitation, to wait, at least, with the appearance of composure, till she might speak to him with more privacy and more effect, was impossible; for Marianne continued incessantly to give way in a low voice to the misery of her feelings, by exclamations of wretchedness.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I notice," said Mrs. Hale, "that they all try mighty hard, though, to take their misery in a mansion."
-- Carrie had the air of one who was weary and in need of protection, and, under the fascinating make-believe of the moment, he rose in feeling until he was ready in spirit to go to her and ease her out of her misery by adding to his own delight.
-- Carrie also felt the misery of it.
-- She was sorry for him, too, with that peculiar sorrow which finds something complimentary to itself in the misery of another.
-- Now his feelings were a mixture of anger at deception, sorrow at losing Carrie, misery at being defeated.
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