"You are miserable, are you not?" 你是悲慘的，你不是麼？
"Yes, I have ever been miserable like this." 是的，我從來沒有那麼悲慘過。
"So, considering the miserable state of the economy, what can you do?" 因此，考慮到目前悲慘的經濟形勢，你能做些什麼呢？
"I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable." 我連續做了幾份工資很低的秘書工作，這真的令我很痛苦。
"There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him." 在這個令人憂傷的地方，根本沒什麼東西可以轉移他的注意力。
"On a grey, wet, miserable day our teams congregated in Port Townsend." 在灰暗、潮濕而又陰冷的一天，我們幾隊人聚集在了湯森港。
"He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else, not even to pass the time of day." 他總是不友好。他從不和我說話，也不和別人說話，哪怕是為了打發時光。
"My life would be miserable without you." 沒有你我的生活會很悽慘的。
"They always complained about their miserable fate." 他們總是抱怨他們悲慘的命運。
"She blinked away her tears and went on telling us the miserable story." 她眨掉了眼淚，繼續給我們講那悲慘的事。