misery

苦しみ、悲惨さ

心や体に感じる、とても大きな悲しみや苦痛。

やさしい英語で： Great sadness or suffering in your mind or body.

• She cried in misery.
• The constant pain made his life a misery.
• Their kindness helped end years of loneliness and misery.

類義語： suffering, distress, unhappiness

反対語： happiness, joy

よく使う表現： deep misery, cause misery, live in misery

貧困、困窮

ひどい貧しさや飢え、劣悪な生活環境の中で暮らすこと。

やさしい英語で： A way of life marked by extreme poverty, hunger, and very poor living conditions.

• Many families lived in misery.
• The photographs show the misery of the city’s poorest streets.
• Better housing helped lift them out of misery.

類義語： destitution, poverty

反対語： prosperity

よく使う表現： live in misery, poverty and misery

災難、苦難

大きな苦しみや不幸をもたらす出来事や問題。

やさしい英語で： An event or problem that causes great suffering or unhappiness.

• Illness was only one of their many miseries.
• The family endured misery after misery.
• She wrote about the small miseries of everyday life.

使い方： the miseries of something (The novel describes the miseries of war.)

類義語： misfortune, calamity, affliction

よく使う表現： misery after misery, miseries of something