pathetic
音標[p?'θetik] 讀音漢語翻譯
a. 悲哀的, 可憐的, 感傷的, 差勁的
【醫】 感情的
詞型變化:
副詞:pathetically 異體字:pathetical英文解釋:
形容詞 pathetic:
- deserving or inciting pity同義詞:hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
- inspiring mixed contempt and pity同義詞:pitiable, pitiful
- inspiring scornful pity- Dashiell Hammett同義詞:ridiculous, silly
例句:
- How pathetic!真讓人泄氣!
- She dances well, but as a singer, she is pathetic.她跳舞跳得好,但唱歌就差勁了。
- We saw the pathetic sight of starving children.
- His tears were pathetic to witness.他的眼淚引起在場人的憐憫。
詳細解釋:
pa.thet.ic
adj.(形容詞)Arousing or capable of arousing sympathetic sadness and compassion.令人同情的,可憐的:激發或能夠激發傷感和同情的Arousing or capable of arousing scornful pity.又笨又可憐的,無價值的:引起或能夠引發帶有輕蔑色彩的憐憫的
來源:French pathétique 法文 pathétique from Late Latin pathôticus 源自 後期拉丁語 pathôticus from Greek pathôtikos [sensitive] 源自 希臘語 pathôtikos [敏感的] from pathôtos [liable to suffer] 源自 pathôtos [易於遭受苦難的] from pathos [suffering] * see k went(h)- 源自 pathos [痛苦,苦難] *參見 k went(h)-
【引伸】
pathet.ically
adv.(副詞)<參考辭彙><同義詞>pathetic,pitiful,pitiable,piteous,lamentable同義詞>These adjectives describe one that inspires or deserves pity.Somethingpathetic elicits sympathetic sadness and compassion: 這些形容詞都指激發或贏得同情的人或物。Pathetic 表示傷感和同情: 例句:.Everything human is pathetic. (Mark Twain).Often the word refers to what is so poor that it arouses scornful pity: .人類具有同情心. (馬克·吐溫)。這個詞常指因十分貧窮而引起輕視的憐憫:
例句:The academic standards in the school were pathetic. Bothpitiful and pitiable apply to what is touchingly sad: 學校的學術水平低得可憐。 Pitiful 和 pitiable 都用於指令人感傷的東西:
例句:.She told a most pitiful story. (Samuel Butler). .她講敘了一個十分令人感傷的故事. (塞繆爾·巴特勒)。
例句:.The emperor had been in a state of pitiable vacillation. (William Hickling Prescott).Sometimes the terms connote contemptuous pity,as for what is hopelessly inept or inadequate: .皇帝曾處於令人可憐的舉棋不定狀態. (威廉·希克林·普雷斯科特)。這兩個詞有時暗指輕蔑的同情,如令人絕望地無能或不合適的東西:
例句:.If when the chips are down, the world`s most powerful nation . . . acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. (Richard M. Nixon). .如果當情況危急時,世界上最強大的國家…象一個可憐的無助的巨人,那么集權主義和 * 勢力將會威脅到全世界的自由國家和組織機構. (理察·M·尼克森)。
例句:.That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units. (Thomas Hardy)..那個被稱為地球的沖積而成的寒冷球體,整體是如此令人生懼,各部分又是那么懦弱甚至令人生憐. (托馬斯·哈代)。
Piteous applies to what cries out for pity: Piteous 用於指因可憐喊出的: 例句:.They . . . made piteous lamentation to us to save them. (Daniel Defoe)..他們向我們示以令人可憐的悲傷來自保. (丹尼爾·笛福)。
Lamentable suggests the evocation of pity mixed with sorrow: Lamentable 指含有悲傷的同情的喚起: 例句:.Tell thou the lamentable tale of me,/And send the hearers weeping to their beds. (Shakespeare).See also Synonyms at moving .講述我的悲傷故事/讓聽者痛不欲生. (莎士比亞)參見同義詞 moving
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