misery

1. N-VAR Misery is great unhappiness. 苦難

All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy. 那些錢帶來(lái)的只有悲哀、苦難和不幸。

2. N-UNCOUNT Misery is the way of life and unpleasant living conditions of people who are very poor. 窮困

A tiny, educated elite profited from the misery of their two million fellow countrymen. 一個(gè)小小的受過教育的精英團(tuán)體從他們兩百萬(wàn)同胞的窮困中獲了利。

3. PHRASE If someone makes your life a misery, they behave in an unpleasant way towards you over a period of time and make you very unhappy. 使某人的生活非常不開心

I would really like living here if it wasn't for the gangs of kids who make our lives a misery. 要不是那一群群的孩子攪得我們生活不寧，我還是挺喜歡住在這里的。

4. PHRASE If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know. 告知情況 (使不再焦慮)[非正式]

Please put me out of my misery. How do you do it?

請(qǐng)別讓我著急了。你是怎么做的呀？

5. PHRASE If you put an animal out of its misery, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed. 殺死 (動(dòng)物) 以使其擺脫痛苦

He notes grimly that the Watsons have called the vet to put their dog out of its misery. 他難過地記錄下沃森家已經(jīng)給獸醫(yī)打了電話，要永遠(yuǎn)結(jié)束他們家狗的痛苦。