橘子朗文词典

misery

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 ['mɪz(ə)rɪ]
  • 美式音标 [ˈmɪz.ɚ.i]
  • 国际音标 ['mizəri]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 痛苦，悲惨；不幸；苦恼；穷困
  • n. (Misery)人名；(法)米斯里

词源解说

  • 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自拉丁语的miseria，意为痛苦，悲惨。

词根记忆

  • mis(看作miss，思念) + ery→相思成灾→苦难，痛苦
  • miser(怜悯) + y→不幸

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    用作名词 (n.)

  • The family lived in misery for several years.
    这家人过了几年的痛苦生活。

词组短语

    用作名词 (n.)

    动词+～

  • bear the misery 忍受痛苦
  • bring misery 带来不幸
  • cause misery 引起不幸
  • create 〔produce〕 misery 制造不幸
  • relieve 〔suffer〕 misery 解除〔遭受〕痛苦

    • 形容词+～

  • deep misery 深重的苦难

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • (UNHAPPY FEELING) great unhappiness
  • (UNHAPPY PERSON) someone who is often very unhappy and is always complaining about things

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • Misery is great unhappiness.
  • Misery is the way of life and unpleasant living conditions of people who are very poor.
  • 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.
  • If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know.
  • If you put an animal out of its misery, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed.

专业释义

    文学

  • 苦难

    Xiao Hong lived in a time of misery, and the same with her life.
    萧红生活在一个苦难的时代，萧红的人生也经历了太多的苦难。

  • 忧患

    These works, which are full of the strong misery consciousness, proclaim the tragedy of nature explicitly.
    这类作品表现出强烈的忧患意识,明确地宣告了自然的悲剧。

    艺术学

  • 苦难

    Narrated the youth which the Zhang Yimou individual growth experience- his misery childhood and constrain youth.
    讲述了张艺谋个人成长的经历——他的苦难童年和压抑的青年时代。

    体育

  • 以得零墩为胜的叫牌

    • 计算机科学技术

  • 痛苦