misery: [14] Latin miser meant ‘miserable, wretched’. From it were derived miseria ‘wretchedness’, source of English misery, and miserābilis ‘pitiable’, source of English miserable [16]. Fitting in with the general semantic pattern, English miser [16] (a direct nominalization of the Latin adjective) originally meant ‘wretched person’. But people who hoarded money were evidently viewed as being basically unhappy, and so right from the beginning miser was used for an ‘a(chǎn)varicious person’. => miser
misery (n.)
late 14c., "condition of external unhappiness," from Old French misere "miserable situation, misfortune, distress" (12c.), from Latin miseria "wretchedness," from miser (see miser). Meaning "condition of one in great sorrow or mental distress" is from 1530s. Meaning "bodily pain" is 1825, American English.
雙語例句
1. They were sickened by the scenes of misery and degradation they found.
目睹困苦、潦倒的景象，他們感到心里極不舒服。
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2. Their energies were focussed on the alleviation of the refugees' misery.
他們把精力集中在減輕難民們的苦難上。
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3. All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
那筆錢帶來的只有傷心、痛苦和悲劇。
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4. Why was I putting myself through all this misery?
我為什么要如此自找苦吃啊？
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5. Her search for love has often caused her excruciating misery and loneliness.