| 词汇 | example_english_miserable |
| 释义 | Examples of miserableThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. When the corporations article was discussed, several delegates reviewed the state's miserable experience with railroads. They recognised that high expectations led to being let down and could make life miserable. They point out that the 21 iwi-based radio stations "eke out a fairly miserable existence," relying on voluntary staff and fund-raising. Yiddish, deemed a symbol of a miserable past in a forced exile, was neither prestigious nor desirable. The congenitally miserable can fulfill their natures (somewhat?) by at least reducing their unhappiness. He set his heel upon this miserable homage to station, which had nothing to support it, and crushed it out of his heart. They think that radiation therapy is going to make them very ill, and that they are going to be miserable. Next thing you know, we're talking baseball and commiserating about our two beloved miserable teams. My one intention was the destruction of the undesirables who continued to make miserable the lives of ordinary decent citizens. In particular, demonization makes powerful politics but miserable policies. Whether the child is happy or miserable, moral or immoral, etc., the parent is sublimely ' uninfluenced ' (1948 : 43). Will he think you have any right to complain when he has made you miserable? Still, if the relationship made the man miserable, it would not have the same value. Miserable as their living and working conditions were, a sense of mutual assistance among the slum-dwellers, especially among solitary people, did exist. He wanted to insure his life and not be dependent upon a miserable pension like what we had arranged for him. Is he predicting that the clone's life would be miserable? He couldn't have been more miserable while she was out with her alley cat, a stranger, a goodfor-nothing, a passer-by in the night. Surely, what is more important than the distribution of misery and happiness over such bundles, is that there are as few as possible miserable experiences. Why is it bad that some bundles of experiences are miserable and others happy? He is miserable and widely hated, but he is a person and acts with free will. A tank full of petrol if we feel like it ... we cheered ourselves up ... whereas it would have been another miserable day, it did us good. Instead, their experiences are generally presented through participants empathising with ' a cast of other older people ' who may be ' isolated, lonely, awkward, miserable, depressed or struggling ' (p. 198). Clever farmers today offer organic produce and gently raised livestock to people alarmed about the miserable nutrition and even poisonous qualities of chemical farming and mass slaughterhouses. Clearly, if a husband was deaf to persuasion, resolved to push his prerogatives to the utmost, then marriage could mean miserable servitude for his unlucky wife. Instead, it might be preferable to make life as miserable as possible for the unemployed in order to ensure their continued desire to leave that status. In consequence, the officers' efforts to secure 'substantial justice' often led to miserable wrangling, partiality, 'despotism' and bad relations with the parties with whose conduct they were concerned. The present furniture fits the miserable slum, the one room, but you have given them two rooms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The miserable articles of furniture that they have fit the slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of them are getting such a miserable pittance that it means actual starvation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We on this side say that it does matter very much how miserable we are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People who are living in the most tragic conditions have to pay exorbitant prices to go elsewhere—perhaps, still in miserable conditions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The owner, in other words, would get a miserable price. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I represent a wholly industrial constituency, which consists almost entirely of poor, mean, miserable streets, into which the sun rarely penetrates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They go to prison feeling very sorry, very humiliated and utterly miserable, and perhaps with grave home troubles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are cold and miserable, with nothing to do but to brood over their miseries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clerks of works are advertised for at £12 per week, when only a miserable £5 per week is the average rate paid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that for the most part it is a rather miserable kind of set-up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he not ashamed of such a miserable record? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, they found themselves in miserable circumstances that completely ruined their holiday. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why have they produced only this miserable little mouse after such prolonged and heavy labour? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Take the case of the ill-paid workman with his miserable pittance of approved benefit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been a miserable failure from every point of view. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The pensions are too miserable even to think about, and the consequence is pressure is put on the local ratepayer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall not vote against it, because there is some increase in help, but the increase is both miserable in amount and inequitable in distribution. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has been sitting in his miserable loneliness all this afternoon with nobody to talk to. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now this country is suffering from the miserable dish they cooked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the first quarter of 1969 it was a miserable 14. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must act so that these people need net spend miserable years waiting for help. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In 40 years in the industry, the writer has never experienced such a miserable and frustrating winter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 None of us can foresee what sort it will be, but it may be less miserable and frustrating—climatically, at any rate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Has that resulted in snoopers and others making people's lives more miserable? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In many instances the smaller schools in certain areas are totally unfitted for giving young people proper instruction; the heating is miserable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have to go back there a miserable minority if you like, but we have to live there and spend our lives there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He would be a miserable caricature of a man. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He got up and talked about this miserable sum of £7,000,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say, therefore, that this miserable little drawback of a penny per 1b. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He may become the unhappy victim of all sorts of miserable circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To me it seems a miserable way of legislating, but that is how it will be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, if their expenses are £3·99, they have to meet them out of the miserable £25 they received. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I use the word "miserable" only because this is a very small site for a housing scheme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All they have done is to come up with this miserable package which is dangerous in form and marginal in content. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some cases miners' wives have brought food to the police, who are living in the most difficult circumstances, in cold and miserable barracks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this cold, miserable and damp year some beef has not been finished as early as it would have been otherwise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Faces and hands almost always get badly burned—one of the most miserable and painful forms of injury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Direct and miserable involvement would be a thing of the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, in 1984, we have put forward two miserable schemes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Who would believe that the number of specially designed wheelchair dwellings completed in 1978 was a miserable 10 compared with 109 in 1983? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The weaker of them turn towards drugs and addiction as a release from what is increasingly a miserable no-hope life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not saying that, 12 months after they acquired the last miserable workshop at a street corner, they have got the whole thing correct. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In short, school sport is being transformed from the miserable legacy of the previous government to one of which we can be quite rightly proud. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have a folder full of reports about miserable incidents of this kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When thousands of miserable slaughterhouses were closed at the beginning of the war an opportunity was presented for rationalising the whole system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was the landlord of what he calls these miserable hovels, which, indeed, they are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let those who plead in the name of justice refrain from such miserable injustices as this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The profound pessimism in the south can be explained by the miserable conditions in which people are living. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In so far as such a miserable sequence of events can have a happy outcome, that is certainly a happy one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was miserable and cared little for himself or his peer group. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is the miserable little measure that has been introduced? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing makes me more miserable than to go home on washing day and not be able to get near the fire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Over these past four years working in or for local government has been an unhappy and at times a miserable task. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are talking about miserable levels like that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The miserable wages paid on the one hand and these enormous profits on the other are completely unjustifiable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I take the example of the young girl with a baby who lives in bad and miserable conditions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many people who are miserable are not unemployed, according to the definition as we understand it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All travel by "miserable" people had already been curtailed in 1835 and 1836 because of the approach of a cholera epidemic. In the words of one official, they were" miserable specimens of their class". His account of the" shattered, dirty, inconvenient, miserable hovels" that he entered has little relation to the picturesque idyll. The conditions under which local people laboured on the roads may easily be described as miserable. The lives of people who were partially or adventitiously deaf were not necessarily miserable. They see, in these miserable paupers in search of a refuge, their future inner enemies, the sign of a siege to come. We may have achieved a sublime state of pure knowledge but there is a miserable recollection of the will in need of constant activity. Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? There is no necessary reason to suppose that, as people age, they become any more miserable, inflexible, unproductive or isolated than anyone else. Because of this miserable political failure, policymakers decided that any comprehensive approach should be avoided, and that reform must take place in incremental steps. In the time-honoured form of procesiones the lower classes gave expression to their hopes for a fundamental improvement in their miserable circumstances. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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