语意表达：苦难；痛苦；不幸Misery is great unhappiness.
句型操练：All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
那笔钱带来的只有伤心、痛苦和悲剧。
...the miseries of his youth.
他年轻时遭受的不幸
句型出处：A man who has made my professional life a misery.
一个让我事业惨不忍睹的混蛋

语意表达：奇怪的；古怪的；奇特的；异常的If you describe someone or something as odd, you think that they are strange or unusual.
句型操练：He'd always been odd, but not to this extent...
他一直比较怪异，不过并没有到这种程度。
What an odd coincidence that he should have known your family...
他居然认识你的家人，真是太巧了。
Something odd began to happen.
怪事开始出现。
句型出处：The odd thing about this form of communication...is you 're more likely to talk about nothing than something.
这种沟通方式的缺点是谈论的话题多半没有意义

语意表达：没有任何借口there is no excuse for
句型操练：But there is no excuse for continuing them.
但这种情况没有理由再继续下去了。
句型出处：No matter what he 's done to me, there is no excuse for my behavior.
但是不管他怎么对我，我都不应该这样做