misery

• n.苦痛、悲惨；不幸；苦痛；困窮
• n.(Misery)人の名前；(仏) Misery

ラテン語のmiserから、惨めな、悲惨な、悲劇的な。

misery

misery: [14] Latin miser meant ‘miserable, wretched’. From it were derived miseria ‘wretchedness’, source of English misery, and miserābilis ‘pitiable’, source of English miserable [16]. Fitting in with the general semantic pattern, English miser [16] (a direct nominalization of the Latin adjective) originally meant ‘wretched person’. But people who hoarded money were evidently viewed as being basically unhappy, and so right from the beginning miser was used for an ‘avaricious person’.
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misery (n.)

late 14c., "condition of external unhappiness," from Old French misere "miserable situation, misfortune, distress" (12c.), from Latin miseria "wretchedness," from miser (see miser). Meaning "condition of one in great sorrow or mental distress" is from 1530s. Meaning "bodily pain" is 1825, American English.

1. They were sickened by the scenes of misery and degradation they found.

苦しい、落ちぶれた光景を見て、彼らはとても気分が悪いと感じた。

2.Their energies were focussed on the alleviation of the refugees ' misery .

彼らは難民たちの苦しみを軽減することに集中している。

3.All that money brough nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.

そのお金がもたらすのは、悲しみ、苦しみ、悲劇だけです。

4.Why was I putting myself through all this misery ？

私はどうしてそんなに自分で苦労しなければならないのですか。

5.Her search for love has often caused her excruciating misery and loneliness.

彼女の愛の探しはしばしば彼女に大きな苦痛と孤独感を与えた。