| 单词 | wretched |
| 释义 | wretch·ed 1. < the wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die — Charles Dickens > < the most wretched of all the sufferers from medieval lack of cleanliness — Edwin Benson > 2. a. < living conditions are wretched because the soil is so poor and dry — Juan Comas > < wretched houses along the tracks … so old that some of them had earthen floors — Morley Callaghan > b. < spend a wretched night on the floor — Archie Binns > < a wretched journey by stage — Elinor Wylie > < wretched health > 3. a. b. < his wretched store of a few dried beans — Pearl Buck > c. < the scrawniest, wretchedest horse I had ever seen — Peter Kalischer > < a wretched purple and black costume that was frayed and stained — Barnaby Conrad > < the most wretched set of animals that he could buy … mangy lions and panthers and sick bears — Robert Graves > d. < the latter poem being so wretched by the standard of the former — Robert Fitzgerald > < the army's wretched supply system had blundered again — F.V.W.Mason > < coinage of this period is noted for its wretched workmanship — J.F.Lhotka > Synonyms: see miserable |
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