misery
n
1 [U] great suffering or discomfort (of mind or body) (精神或肉體的)痛苦, 難受
suffer the misery of toothache 受牙痛之苦
living in misery and want, ie in wretched conditions and poverty 在窮困中生活
lead a life of misery 過悲慘的生活. 2[C usu pl 通常作復數]
painful happening; great misfortune痛苦的事; 大不幸
the miseries of unemployment 失業的痛苦.
3 [C] (Brit infml 口) person who is always miserable and complaining 總發牢騷不痛快的人
It's no fun being with you, you old misery! 你老發牢騷, 跟你在一起真沒意思!
4 (idm 習語) make sb's life a misery => life. put sb out of his `misery
(a) end sb's sufferings by killing him 殺死某人以結束其痛苦; 讓某人一死百了.
(b) (joc 謔) end sb's anxiety or suspense 使某人不再擔憂或疑慮
Put me out of my misery tell me if I've passed or not! 你就別讓我受罪了--告訴我我及格不及格! put an animal, bird, etc out of its `misery end the suffering of an animal, etc by killing it 殺死某動物以結束其痛苦.
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買(mi)司儀(se)的樹苗(ry)使我 痛苦
?? 擴展釋義
*['miz?ri]n. 痛苦, 悲慘, 不幸, 窮困
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differentiatevt.& vi. 區分,區別,辨別;
vi. 區別對待;
vt. 表明…間的差別,構成…間差別的特征;[數學] 求…的微分:計算導數或(函數的)微分;
approximateadj. 約莫的,大概的;極相似的;[植]相近但不連接的;
vi. 接近于;近似于;
vt. 靠近;使接近;使結合;