miserable

1. ADJ If you are miserable, you are very unhappy. 痛苦的

I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable. 我连着干了几份工资很低的秘书工作，这让我感到真的很痛苦。

2. miserablyADV 痛苦地

He looked miserably down at his plate. 他痛苦地低头看着自己的盘子。

3. ADJ If you describe a place or situation as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel unhappy or depressed. 令人忧伤的

There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him. 在这个令人忧伤的地方，根本没什么东西可以转移他的注意力。

4. ADJ If you describe the weather as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull. 阴冷多雨的

On a grey, wet, miserable day our teams congregated in Port Townsend. 在灰暗、潮湿而又阴冷的一天，我们几队人聚集在了汤森港。

5. ADJ If you describe someone as miserable, you mean that you do not like them because they are bad-tempered or unfriendly. 脾气不好的; 不友好的[ADJ n]

He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else, not even to pass the time of day. 他总是不友好。他从不和我说话，也不和别人说话，那怕是为了打发时光。

6. ADJ You can describe a quantity or quality as miserable when you think that it is much smaller or worse than it ought to be. 少得可怜的[强调]

Our speed over the ground was a miserable 2.2 knots. 我们在地面上的速度只有区区的2.2节。

7. miserablyADV 少得可怜地[ADV adj]

...the miserably inadequate supply of books now provided for schools. …现在提供给学校的书籍少得可怜。

8. ADJ A miserable failure is a very great one. 惨痛的[ADJ n] [强调]

The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States. 这部电影在意大利和美国票房收入都遭到了惨败。

9. miserablyADV 悲惨地[ADV with v]

Some manage it. Some fail miserably. 有人成功了。有些人败得很惨。