miserable

1. ADJ If you are miserable, you are very unhappy. 痛苦的

I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable. 我連著乾了幾份工資很低的秘書(shū)工作，這讓我感到真的很痛苦。

2. miserablyADV 痛苦地

He looked miserably down at his plate. 他痛苦地低頭看著自己的磐子。

3. ADJ If you describe a place or situation as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel unhappy or depressed. 令人憂(yōu)傷的

There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him. 在這個(gè)令人憂(yōu)傷的地方，根本沒(méi)什麼東西可以轉(zhuǎn)移他的注意力。

4. ADJ If you describe the weather as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull. 隂冷多雨的

On a grey, wet, miserable day our teams congregated in Port Townsend. 在灰暗、潮溼而又隂冷的一天，我們幾隊(duì)人聚集在了湯森港。

5. ADJ If you describe someone as miserable, you mean that you do not like them because they are bad-tempered or unfriendly. 脾氣不好的; 不友好的[ADJ n]

He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else, not even to pass the time of day. 他縂是不友好。他從不和我說(shuō)話(huà)，也不和別人說(shuō)話(huà)，那怕是爲(wèi)了打發(fā)時(shí)光。

6. ADJ You can describe a quantity or quality as miserable when you think that it is much smaller or worse than it ought to be. 少得可憐的[強(qiáng)調(diào)]

Our speed over the ground was a miserable 2.2 knots. 我們?cè)诘佧犐系乃俣刃}有區(qū)區(qū)的2.2節(jié)。

7. miserablyADV 少得可憐地[ADV adj]

...the miserably inadequate supply of books now provided for schools. …現(xiàn)在提供給學(xué)校的書(shū)籍少得可憐。

8. ADJ A miserable failure is a very great one. 慘痛的[ADJ n] [強(qiáng)調(diào)]

The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States. 這部電影在意大利和美國(guó)票房收入都遭到了慘敗。

9. miserablyADV 悲慘地[ADV with v]

Some manage it. Some fail miserably. 有人成功了。有些人敗得很慘。