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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps it is as well that I was saved from launching it; but at the time my misery at my failure was so acute that for some days I simply moped on the beach, and stared at the water and thought of death.
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：
-- As the thoughts of those who are in misery seldom slumber, and the invention is never more lively than when it is stimulated by hope, however feeble and remote, he had even imagined that the parental feelings of Munro were to be made instrumental in seduc-ing him from his duty to the king.
-- In that language he knew so well how to assume, he diverted his comrades from their instant purpose, and invited them to prolong the misery of their victims.
-- The father and the lover found instant relief in the search; though each was condemned again to experience the misery of an uncertainty that was hardly less insup- portable than the most revolting truth.
-- They say misery is the closest of all ties; our common suffering in your be-half left but little to be explained between your father and myself.'
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：
-- I suppose he had some idea that the sight of his misery would touch her.
-- He was young still, and in a few years he would look back on all his misery with a sadness in which there would be something not unpleasurable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this hatching of their scheme, neither Trent nor Quilp had had one thought about the happiness or misery of poor innocent Nell.
-- No, not even on that memorable morning, when, deserting their old home, they abandoned themselves to the mercies of a strange world, and left all the dumb and senseless things they had known and loved, behind not even then, had they so yearned for the fresh solitudes of wood, hillside, and field, as now, when the noise and dirt and vapour, of the great manufacturing town reeking with lean misery and hungry wretchedness, hemmed them in on every side, and seemed to shut out hope, and render escape impossible.
-- There was the same thick air, difficult to breathe; the same blighted ground, the same hopeless prospect, the same misery and distress.
-- It is worthy of remark, too, as illustrating a little feature in the character of Miss Sally Brass, that, although on her own account she would have borne the discomforts of the Wilderness with a very ill grace, and would probably, indeed, have walked off before the tea appeared, she no sooner beheld the latent uneasiness and misery of her brother than she developed a grim satisfaction, and began to enjoy herself after her own manner.
-- CHAPTER 61Let moralists and philosophers say what they may, it is very questionable whether a guilty man would have felt half as much misery that night, as Kit did, being innocent.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when I had watched the gestures of one of them groping under the hawthorn against the red sky, and heard their moans, I was assured of their absolute helplessness and misery in the glare, and I struck no more of them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then she began to cry, bitterly, bitterly weeping: but whether for misery or joy, she never knew.
-- And on them there seemed to float a film of disintegration, a sort of misery and sullenness, like oil on water.
-- He cast over in his mind, what it would be possible to do, to save himself from this misery of nothingness, relieve the stress of this hollowness.
-- But when she went away, he relapsed under the misery of his dissolution.
-- She and Gudrun resumed work as usual, in the isolation of the studio, and this seemed an immeasurable happiness, a pure world of freedom, after the aimlessness and misery of the house.
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