语意表达:苦难;痛苦;不幸Misery is great unhappiness.
句型操练:All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
那笔钱带来的只有伤心、痛苦和悲剧。
...the miseries of his youth.
他年轻时遭受的不幸
句型出处:A man who has made my professional life a misery.
一个让我事业惨不忍睹的混蛋
语意表达:奇怪的;古怪的;奇特的;异常的If you describe someone or something as odd, you think that they are strange or unusual.
句型操练:He'd always been odd, but not to this extent...
他一直比较怪异,不过并没有到这种程度。
What an odd coincidence that he should have known your family...
他居然认识你的家人,真是太巧了。
Something odd began to happen.
怪事开始出现。
句型出处:The odd thing about this form of communication...is you 're more likely to talk about nothing than something.
这种沟通方式的缺点是谈论的话题多半没有意义
语意表达:没有任何借口there is no excuse for
句型操练:But there is no excuse for continuing them.
但这种情况没有理由再继续下去了。
句型出处:No matter what he 's done to me, there is no excuse for my behavior.
但是不管他怎么对我,我都不应该这样做