喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From Old French miserie, from Latin miseria, from miser.

源自古法文 miserie，來自拉丁文 miseria。

Wiktionary

A weight of suffering that sits on someone and does not lift — not a sharp moment of pain but a long, grinding state: no money, no home, sickness, or a sadness that fills the whole day. The word carries duration; misery is something you are stuck inside.

可以想成一種壓在人身上、而且遲遲不會挪開的難受。它不是一下子的痛，比較像長期泡在裡面的狀態——沒錢、沒地方住、身體壞掉，或是那種從早到晚都散不掉的沉重。misery 這個字的重點在「持續」：不是被刺了一下，是被困在裡面出不來。後面所有用法都圍著這個「困住的苦」在轉：有人把你推進去、有人把你拉出來、也有人自己活在裡面還順手把別人拖下水。

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同家族的字

miseries

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Miseryname

  • 1

    derogatoryslangDerogatory name for Missouri: a state of the United States.

    • First, the young lady whom you spoke as becoming [a] mistress of the establishment would most likely (if she could become as such) be brought into a state of misery, instead of being brought from the state of misery, (or Missouri), [...]

miserynoun/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹɪ/

  • 1

    Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

    • Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.
    • For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
  • 2

    dialectalA bodily ache or pain.

    • [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.
  • 3

    Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

  • 4

    poverty.

    • The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe, […] Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat, Or twil be puld out of her throat: […] The rich haue all, the poore liue in miſerie: […]
  • 5

    archaicgreed; avarice.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。