What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

他们住在济贫院里，过的生活真悲惨！

He knows how wretched it is spending your working life trying to get people to do things they don't want to do and bearing responsibility for things that you can't change.

他明白，那是多么不幸的一件事，在工作时试图让其他人做内心不喜欢的事情，还要为那些自己无法改变的事情承担责任。

I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

我读过许多聪明人的文章，那些神秘的哲理塞满我的大脑，可是，找不到一朵红玫瑰却让自己的生活这样凄凉。

That wretched woman must lead a life of terror.

那可怜的女人的日子一定过得够呛。

Life on a desert island is wretched.

认为荒岛生活很可怕。

What a wretched and unconscionable fool I am, "he thought." Have I laughed at the follies of weak men all my life, and am I to be more foolish than the weakest of them at last?

我是个多么可怜的、没有道理的傻瓜，“他心中想道，”我平生嘲笑弱者的愚蠢，而归根结蒂我却将比弱者中最弱的人还要愚蠢吗？

Actually, it was the most wretched three months of my life.

实际上，那是我一生中最悲惨的3个月。

He is a wretched idle layabout never done a day's work in his life.

他是一个讨厌的懒汉一辈子没干过一天活。

The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched.

另一些画面截然相反。生活在荒岛上十分艰苦。

I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

我读了所有智者写的书，掌握了所有哲学的秘密，可就是因为缺一朵红玫瑰，生活就变得痛苦不堪。

Life is wretched indeed.

生活确实很惨。