語意表達：苦難；痛苦；不幸Misery is great unhappiness.
句型操練：All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
那筆錢帶來的只有傷心、痛苦和悲劇。
...the miseries of his youth.
他年輕時遭受的不幸
句型出處：A man who has made my professional life a misery.
一個讓我事業慘不忍睹的混蛋

語意表達：奇怪的；古怪的；奇特的；異常的If you describe someone or something as odd, you think that they are strange or unusual.
句型操練：He'd always been odd, but not to this extent...
他一直比較怪異，不過并沒有到這種程度。
What an odd coincidence that he should have known your family...
他居然認識你的家人，真是太巧了。
Something odd began to happen.
怪事開始出現。
句型出處：The odd thing about this form of communication...is you 're more likely to talk about nothing than something.
這種溝通方式的缺點是談論的話題多半沒有意義

語意表達：沒有任何借口there is no excuse for
句型操練：But there is no excuse for continuing them.
但這種情況沒有理由再繼續下去了。
句型出處：No matter what he 's done to me, there is no excuse for my behavior.
但是不管他怎么對我，我都不應該這樣做