If you are miserable, you are very unhappy.
I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable.
我连续做了几份工资很低的秘书工作,这真的令我很痛苦。
If you describe a place or situation as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel unhappy or depressed.
There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him.
在这个令人忧伤的地方,根本没什么东西可以转移他的注意力。
If you describe the weather as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull.
On a grey, wet, miserable day our teams congregated in Port Townsend.
在灰暗、潮湿而又阴冷的一天,我们几队人聚集在了汤森港。
If you describe someone as miserable, you mean that you do not like them because they are bad-tempered or unfriendly.
He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else, not even to pass the time of day.
他总是不友好。他从不和我说话,也不和别人说话,哪怕是为了打发时光。
You can describe a quantity or quality as miserable when you think that it is much smaller or worse than it ought to be.
Our speed over the ground was a miserable 2.2 knots.
我们在地面上的速度只有区区的2.2节。
A miserable failure is a very great one.
The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States.
这部电影在意大利和美国的票房收入都遭到了惨败。