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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 4674 COCA: 6088

misery

mis·e·ry /ˈmɪzəri/ ●●○ S3 noun (plural miseries)  
1  [countableC, uncountableU]SUFFER great suffering that is caused for example by being very poor or very sick 痛苦，困苦，苦难
 What we are witnessing here is human misery on a vast scale.
我们在这里所目睹的情景是许许多多的人都生活困苦。
 the misery of unemployment
失业的痛苦
 the miseries of war
战争造成的苦难
2  [countableC, uncountableU]SAD/UNHAPPY great unhappiness 愁苦，悲苦
 She looked away so that Tom wouldn’t see her misery.
她扭过头去，不让汤姆看到自己的痛苦。
 His face was a picture of sheer misery (=great unhappiness, with no other emotion).
他一脸的愁苦。
 The news plunged him into abject misery (=extreme unhappiness).
这消息让他陷入极度痛苦之中。
3  make somebody’s life a misery British EnglishBrEPROBLEM to cause so much trouble for someone that they cannot enjoy their life 使某人的日子不好过，使某人的生活充满痛苦
 Competitive mothers can make their daughters’ lives a misery.
母亲争强好胜会使女儿日子不好过。
Examples from the Corpus
make somebody’s life a misery• The roadworks are making their lives a misery.• Circuit judge John Lee, 65, told a court that all men suffer because women enjoy making their lives a misery.• My supervisor has made my life a misery.• It makes my life a misery.• Why did they have to make his life a misery?• She really was making his life a misery.• In Dinny's code, if you beat some one in a fight you made their life misery for as long as possible.
4  put something/somebody out of their misery 
a) informalWORRIED# to make someone stop feeling worried, especially by telling them something they are waiting to hear 使某人不再着急[担心]〔尤指通过告诉其想了解之事〕
 Go on, put them out of their misery and announce the winner.
说吧，别让他们着急了，宣布谁是获胜者吧。
b) KILLto kill a sick or injured animal in order to end its suffering 结束某动物的痛苦〔指杀死患病或受伤的动物〕 SYN put down
 I think you should put the poor creature out of its misery.
我想你应该让这可怜的东西结束痛苦。
5  [countableC] British EnglishBrE spokenCOMPLAIN someone who is always complaining and never enjoys anything 满腹牢骚的人
 Don’t be such a misery.
别埋怨个没完。
 What’s the matter with you, misery guts (=a name for someone like this)?
你怎么了，牢骚包？
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misery• Don't invite her. She's such a misery!• The high interest rates caused misery for millions of people.• I was tagging along, comforting a man in misery until he started teaching.• The second half brought more misery.• Stop grumbling, you old misery.• Being paid was sheer misery for many.• He talked openly about the misery of his marriage.• The shattering plate might as well have struck him, for the pain and the misery on his face.• The flight from the countryside has compounded the misery of the urban poor, traditionally the bedrock of Sandinista support.• We cannot ignore the misery of the people in this country who are forced to live on the streets.• You're just bringing all this misery on yourself.• It started with a sore throat and became a week of total misery.• Some children spent their entire schooldays in unrelieved misery.• Morris further believed that forcing anyone to be active during the contemplative phase, or vice versa, causes utter misery.
abject misery• For the first three years he endured abject misery.• But for some, who didn't get the grades they hoped for, there's abject misery.
Origin misery
(1300-1400) Old French miserie, from Latin miseria, from miser; → MISER
mis·e·ry noun
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 4674 COCA: 6088
misery

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + MISERY | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤abject, great, real, sheer, untold極度的痛苦；巨大的痛苦◇This phobia can cause untold misery for the sufferer.這種恐懼症能給患者造成極度的痛苦。➤complete痛苦到極點◇Her misery was made complete when she was separated from her children.她被迫與孩子們分開時痛苦到了極點。➤personal個人的痛苦➤human人類的苦難➤economic經濟上的窘困◇the country's economic misery該國經濟的窘困VERB + MISERY➤be full of, endure, feel, live in, suffer滿心痛苦；忍受痛苦；感到痛苦；生活在痛苦中；遭受痛苦◇people who suffer the misery of unemployment遭受失業之苦的人們➤bring (sb), cause (sb), create, inflict（給某人）帶來痛苦；引起（某人的）痛苦；造成痛苦◇The money brought him nothing but misery.那筆錢帶給他的只有痛苦。➤add to, heap, prolong增加／加劇／延長痛苦◇War has now added to the misery of these starving people.如今戰爭令這些饑民的日子雪上加霜。◇This financial blow heaps more misery on the community.這一經濟打擊加劇了社會的苦難。➤alleviate, ease, relieve減輕／緩解／解除痛苦◇ways to alleviate human misery減輕人類苦難的方法➤end結束苦難▸➤put sb/sth out of將⋯人工致死以解除其痛苦；消除⋯的憂慮◇In the end we asked the vet to put the creature out of its misery (= kill it humanely).最終我們請獸醫給這可憐的動物人道毀滅以結束其痛苦。◇Oh, put her out of her misery－tell her who won. (humorous) 哦，別讓她受罪了 － 告訴她誰贏了。➤spare sb使某人免受痛苦◇At least we were spared the misery of having to do it all again.至少我們得以免受全部重做之苦。➤share (especially NAmE) 分擔痛苦▸➤forget忘記痛苦PREPOSITION➤misery of⋯的痛苦◇the sheer misery of homelessness無家可歸的極度痛苦PHRASES➤make sb's life a misery使某人的生活沒有樂趣◇His constant criticism made her life a misery.他沒完沒了的指責使她的生活痛苦不堪。
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 4674 COCA: 6088
misery noun
⇨ distress
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 4674 COCA: 6088

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