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Picture someone sitting alone, cold, wet, and , with no comfort anywhere in reach — a low, grinding kind of unhappiness that soaks the whole situation rather than a sharp burst of sadness. From that soaked-through picture the word spreads : to the person who always looks like that, to the places and weather that put you there, and to amounts so poor they leave you feeling that way.
可以想成一個人獨自坐著，又冷又濕又不舒服，身邊沒有一樣東西能讓他好過一點——那是一種悶悶的、拖很久的不快樂，浸透了整…更多收起
可以想成一個人獨自坐著，又冷又濕又不舒服，身邊沒有一樣東西能讓他好過一點——那是一種悶悶的、拖很久的不快樂，浸透了整個處境，而不是突然爆出來的一陣傷心。從這個「整個泡在裡面」的畫面往外散：可以指那個人的心情，也可以指老是一副那種臉的人，還可以指害你變成那樣的地方和天氣，甚至指少得或差得讓人心情跌到那裡的份量。原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
miserableadj/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/
- 1
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
- 2
Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
- He's good at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.
- 3
Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
- 4
Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
- a miserable sinner
- In a month's collecting at Wonosalem and Djapannan I accumulated ninety-eight species of birds, but a most miserable lot of insects.
- 5
obsoleteCausing unhappiness or misery.
- For what's more miserable than discontent?
- 6
obsoleteAvaricious; niggardly; miserly.
- the liberal-hearted man is by the opinion of the prodigal miserable, and by the judgment of the miserable lavish
- 7
Negative minded, unpleasant to be around.
miserablenoun/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/
- 1
A miserable person; a wretch.
- Dona Carmen repaired to the balcony to chat and jest with, and at, these miserables, who stopped before the door to rest in their progress. All pretended poverty while literally groaning under the weight of their riches.
- The charge that those who played Jesus in these representations were treated badly by the plays' Jews and Romans left one commissioner cold: in his view, these miserables were beaten much less severely by the players than they were by their actual lords or curacas.
- 2
informalA state of misery or melancholy.
- By 3:00 P.M. both DeeDee and Sandra's pants were thoroughly soaked, and this unhappy circumstance gave DeeDee a bad case of the miserables.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。