People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery.

以前的人们陷入了痛苦的回忆。

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They were sickened by the scenes of misery and degradation they found.

他们对所看到的凄惨和堕落景象感到恶心。

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Their lives were filled with untold suffering.; They lived in an abyss of misery.

他们生活在水深火热之中。

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U.N.aid agencies describe a chaotic scene of misery and desperation.

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This all came hard and at the cost, I'm sure, of a lot of human life and a lot of misery.

一切都变得艰难了,我确定,这夺走了很多人的生命,造成了很多痛苦

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He is abject. He is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery, perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness.

他很卑鄙，他是道德败坏的典型，他是凶残和,滑稽的结合体，背叛了至高的痛苦，但也并不吸引人。

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Some parents refuse help and seem to prefer a kind of misery to getting help.

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It should be enough to keep the economic contraction down to 4 quarters of misery.

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This change reflects the success of developing countries in hauling themselves out of misery.

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