misery /ˈmɪzərɪ/ CET6 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-VAR Misery is great unhappiness. 苦难

  例：

  All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.

  那些钱带来的只有悲哀、苦难和不幸。

• 2. 

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

  例：

  A tiny, educated elite profited from the misery of their two million fellow countrymen.

  一个小小的受过教育的精英团体从他们两百万同胞的穷困中获了利。

• 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开心

  例：

  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搅得我们生活不宁，我还是挺喜欢住在这里的。

• 4. 

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

  例：

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

  请别让我着急了。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. 杀死 (动物) 以使其摆脱痛苦

  例：

  He notes grimly that the Watsons have called the vet to put their dog out of its misery.

  他难过地记录下沃森家已经给兽医打了电话，要永远结束他们家狗的痛苦。