wretch

Word family adjectivewretchedadverbwretchedlynounwretchwretchedness

wretch /retʃ/ noun [countableC] → retch

1 SYMPATHIZEsomeone that you feel sorry for 可怜的人

He was a lonely, miserable wretch.

他是一个孤独的可怜虫。

2 ANNOYsomeone you are annoyed with 淘气鬼；家伙

Stop pulling my hair, you wretch!

别拉我头发，你这淘气鬼！

Examples from the Corpus

wretch• That miserable little wretch would lie to anyone.• Besides, Mr. Williams, who would waste themselves on such a miserable wretch?• He was a lonely, miserable wretch.• The sermon he found surprisingly proper, but Adams was repelled to see poor wretches fingering their prayer beads.• Then as now, judges felt more at ease burning some poor wretch if they had a confession in hand.• What would happen to this poor wretch when we let her go?• I marvel who these wretches could be, moving in such numbers, and so heavily armed.• Ten thousand wretches wanted to be Byron and ended as wretches, still wanting.• Unhappy wretch that I am, I left my native fireside and alienated my home to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands.

Origin wretch

Old English wrecca “person driven out”

词汇	wretch
释义	wretch Word family adjectivewretchedadverbwretchedlynounwretchwretchedness wretch /retʃ/ noun [countableC] → retch 1 SYMPATHIZEsomeone that you feel sorry for 可怜的人 He was a lonely, miserable wretch. 他是一个孤独的可怜虫。 2 ANNOYsomeone you are annoyed with 淘气鬼；家伙 Stop pulling my hair, you wretch! 别拉我头发，你这淘气鬼！ Examples from the Corpus wretch• That miserable little wretch would lie to anyone.• Besides, Mr. Williams, who would waste themselves on such a miserable wretch?• He was a lonely, miserable wretch.• The sermon he found surprisingly proper, but Adams was repelled to see poor wretches fingering their prayer beads.• Then as now, judges felt more at ease burning some poor wretch if they had a confession in hand.• What would happen to this poor wretch when we let her go?• I marvel who these wretches could be, moving in such numbers, and so heavily armed.• Ten thousand wretches wanted to be Byron and ended as wretches, still wanting.• Unhappy wretch that I am, I left my native fireside and alienated my home to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands. Origin wretch Old English wrecca “person driven out”
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