wretched的意思|wretched的解释-里氏词典

wretched ['retʃid]

a. 可怜的, 不幸的, 卑鄙的

wretched

[ adj ]

of very poor quality or condition

<adj.all>

deplorable housing conditions in the inner city

woeful treatment of the accused

woeful errors of judgment

characterized by physical misery

<adj.all>

a wet miserable weekend

spent a wretched night on the floor

very unhappy; full of misery

<adj.all>

he felt depressed and miserable

a message of hope for suffering humanity

wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages

morally reprehensible

<adj.all>

would do something as despicable as murder

ugly crimes

the vile development of slavery appalled them

a slimy little liar

deserving or inciting pity

<adj.all>

a hapless victim

miserable victims of war

the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic

piteous appeals for help

pitiable homeless children

a pitiful fate

Oh, you poor thing

his poor distorted limbs

a wretched life

Wretched \Wretch"ed\, a.
1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep
affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief;
calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. ``To what wretched
state reserved!'' --Milton.

O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind
Than to the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore . . .

2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a
wretched poem; a wretched cabin.

3. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [Obs.]
``Wretched ungratefulness.'' --Sir P. Sidney.

Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men
wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices.
--Capgrave.

Tune in to Vietnam these days and you'll hear a lot about the wretched state of the Vietnamese economy, from the Vietnamese Communist Party itself.
"Bengalis love their wretched city with the same passion as a mother loves her sick child," wrote Khushwant Singh, a leading Indian author and journalist.
We all know that the 'travel writer' is not the same beast as the wretched compiler of tourist guidebooks, and we also know that the genre contains a menagerie of skills and interests.
"For Westinghouse and TI to be picked so early, it suggests that they either had such an advantage that they couldn't be caught or that the terms were so wretched that one team declined to bid," said First Boston's Mr. Demisch.
"This wretched man has no choice but to die because he has confronted a billion Muslims and the Imam." _Iranian President Ali Khamenei.
It is an exercise in sheer egotism and wretched for exhibitors thus press-ganged into a Blake creation.
To succor the wretched of Armenia's earthquake, each did what he could Monday: Alaska sent dogs to sniff out the trapped, Kenya sent tea to warm the chilled, and a U.S. millionaire personally delivered a $1 million check.
The wretched worlds of violence and oppression are not the realms of the Moslems only.
"George was also very depressed and told his mother that his life was so wretched that he would rather die," Solyom said. "Parents of obsessive-compulsives, particularly mothers, often have cruel streaks," he said.
Later, Tirso makes much of a quasi-Shakespearian pastoral scene, in which the veiled Tamar wanders, wretched, among happy shepherds.
Pilkington has such a wretched recent history that it is hard to give it the benefit of the doubt.

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