名词

1. 苦难;痛苦;不幸
Misery is great unhappiness.

2. 穷困;悲惨的境遇
Misery is the way of life and unpleasant living conditions of people who are very poor.

3. 牢骚满腹者;爱抱怨的人
If you say that someone is a misery, you are critical of them because they are always com-plaining.

4. 使生活痛苦;使日子不好过
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.

5. (告诉某人其急于想知道的事)消除…的忧虑
If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know.

6. 将(动物)人工致死以结束其痛苦
If you put an animal out of its misery, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed.

1. a feeling of intense unhappiness

e.g. she was exhausted by her misery and grief

2. a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

e.g. the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable

Synonym: wretchednessmiserableness