(460) Word/ Wretch [英単語]
Word/ Wretch
Amazing grace is a famous song of gospel. In its words I found a word ‘wretch’. I didn’t know the meaning of this word.
‘Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!’
I thought this word is hard for me. So I'll have no chance to use this word by myself.
The other day I happened to see a similar word,’ wretched’ in a picture book for children. I can guess its meaning because I knew of wretch. So I changed my mind to that I should learn this word, wretched as an English learner.
1. Meaning:
(1) wretch [rétʃ]: a poor, unhappy person (Oxford wordpower dictionary)
Old-fashioned someone that you feel sorry for (Longman Active Study Dictionary)
(2) wretched [rétʃɪd]: Very unhappy (Oxford wordpower dictionary)
Someone who is wretched is very unhappy or ill, and you feel sorry for
Them (Longman Active Study Dictionary)
Them (Longman Active Study Dictionary)
2. How to use these words:
(1) The poor wretch was clearly starving. (Oxford wordpower dictionary)
(2) “No one shall tell me that I was once a mouse!” But an old hermit1), mighty at
magic does tell him; for it was he who first changed the tiger from a wretched little mouse to a stout2) cat, to a big dog, and finally, to his proud and royal self.
(picture book named Once A Mouse･･･)
1) hermit/ 隠者，世捨て人
2) stout/ 頑丈な，丈夫な，強い
- 作者: Marcia Brown
- 出版社/メーカー: Aladdin
- 発売日: 1989/09/30
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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