Cảnh nghèo khổ, cảnh khổ cực

to live in misery and want

sống trong cảnh nghèo khổ, thiếu thốn

Sự đau đớn, khổ sở

to suffer (be in) misery from a toothache

khổ sở vì đau răng

( số nhiều) những nỗi khốn khổ, những điều bất hạnh

Unhappiness, distress, discomfort, wretchedness, woe,sadness, melancholy, sorrow, dolour, heartache, grief, anguish,anxiety, angst, depression, despair, desperation, desolation,despondency, gloom: Worn out by grief and misery, she collapsedinto a chair.

Squalor, poverty, destitution, privation,indigence, penury, wretchedness, sordidness: The misery ofthose slums is unbelievable.

Hardship, suffering, calamity,disaster, curse, misfortune, ordeal, woe, trouble, catastrophe,trial, tribulation, adversity, burden, affliction: She cannotbear the twin miseries of illness and poverty.

Spoilsport,damper, killjoy, dampener, Jobs comforter, grouch, grump,malcontent, pessimist, cynic, prophet of doom, Cassandra, Colloqwet blanket, sourpuss, US party pooper, gloomy Gus, picklepuss:How can you stand living with such a misery?

(pl. -ies) 1 a wretched state of mind, or of outwardcircumstances.

A thing causing this.

Colloq. a constantlydepressed or discontented person.

= MIS°RE.

Kill (an animal in pain). [ME f. OF misere or Lmiseria (as MISER)]