"Oh, when Helene speaks to me, I wish that her voice were different, when she looks into my face I wish that she had other eyes. She constantly keeps me in mind of all that should have been and is not. I cannot bear to have her near me. I smile at her, I try to make up to her for the real affection of which she is defrauded. I am wretched, monsieur, too wretched to live. And I am supposed to be a pattern wife. And I have committed no sins. And I am respected!英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"If you think so badly of him, tell him, then, and let him go. Oh, I am wretched--I am wretched!" She lifted her hands in despair, and began to cry and sob bitterly.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
DOLABELLA. Help, help!--O wretch! O cursed, cursed wretch! What have I done!英文原著 · 《All For Love》
A blue-bottle chose that moment to come buzzing round him with a sort of fury; the sound was homely, better than nothing.... Where had the boy gone to read his letter? The wretched letter--the wretched story! A cruel business--cruel to her--to Soames--to those two children--to himself!... His heart thumped and pained him. Life--its loves--its work--its beauty--its aching, and--its end! A good time; a fine time in spite of all; until--you regretted that you had ever been born. Life--it wore you down, yet did not make you want to die--that was the cunning evil!英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
old death with open eyes! old devil's cradle! vile lantern of an old town-crier too! Old wretch whose look kills! old moustache of an old theriacler! old wretch to make dead men weep! old organ-pedal! old sheath with a hundred knives!英文原著 · 《Droll Stories-2》
"No woman ever took that fatal step yet, without its entailing on her the most dire wretchedness," she replied. "It cannot be otherwise. And Lady Isabel was of a nature to feel remorse beyond common--to meet it half-way. Refined, modest, with every feeling of an English gentlewoman, she was the very last, one would have thought, to act so. It was as if she had gone away in a dream, not knowing what she was doing; I have thought so many a time. That terrible mental wretchedness and remorse did overtake her, I know."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
Dear Lord, I thank you for this bland, indifferently prepared meal, and beseech you to ignite some spark of compassion in my cold-hearted daughter-in-law, that she might show some shred of mercy to me, her wretched captive.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》