| 词汇 | example_english_pity |
| 释义 | Examples of pityThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. She is to be congratulated on that, or perhaps pitied for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously, any physical or mental weakness is to be pitied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What a thousand pities it is to discourage a boy's keen spirit at that age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are people who are under pressure from events and circumstances and are more to be pitied than anything else, and are to be assisted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I always felt it was a thousand pities that those talks came to an end at the time and for the reason that they did. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Millions of our fellow citizens do not enjoy that freedom, and of them, surely, the aged are the most to be pitied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us leave this aged defeatist and reactionary to the pitying contempt of posterity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know they think that, and, of course, one cannot but respect their feelings, although one pities them for not understanding the matter more thoroughly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, it is the sort of transaction which, in the not too recent past, we pitied other countries for having to make. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it would be a thousand pities if we lost that local interest in our educational administration in those areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think everybody will agree it would have been a thousand pities if we had let the contest go by default. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can, of course, proceed with-out them, but it would be a thousand pities if we had to do so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In those conditions, it seems to me to be a thousand pities to abolish this experiment before anything else has been put in its place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is not a person, therefore, to be pitied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the great pities is that we did not look at the contraction of this industry in other fields five or six years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since then the author, in a pitying letter, writes to me to say that one cannot teach an old dog new tricks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To my mind it was a thousand pities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not all implemented, so why in pity's name should this one he implemented? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are more victims to be pitied than blamed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody helped them then; nobody pitied them then. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, it would be a thousand pities to allow the ship to be spoilt for the want of a halfpennyworth of tar. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely, for pity's sake, we should be allowed the opportunity to discuss the preparations for life and health during peace. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not blaming them, merely suggesting that they should not be pitied for this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The habit, when it becomes chronic, loosens a man's moral fibres, and his children are greatly to be pitied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Improve our standard of living for pity's sake! From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I think he rather pitied his own lot and envied the fate of his successor. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not a thousand pities he should not take part in the advance; that he should merely be a looker-on? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The subject is an important one of considerable public interest, and it would be a thousand pities if discussion had to be curtailed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I consider that it is a thousand pities that a person in his position should broadcast about controversial matters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is more to be pitied than blamed in being placed in that rather invidious position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that the powder monkeys of last century, like other children in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, were more to be pitied than envied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were very nearly on the point of being pitied but now we are respected as honourable men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the pities is that this is bound to happen in all circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, when by that explicit political process we finally have to make up our mind, for pity's sake! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was to be pitied rather than envied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this particular case, it is better to be envied than pitied and to preserve and keep what we have. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I am sure we shall all agree that that is a thousand pities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that it is a thousand pities that any such declaration should now be made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Adults who are smoking are to be pitied for their costly addiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If his family is large, he is in a worse plight and more to be pitied than his neighbour who is unemployed and receiving benefit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Local residents are the people who are really to be pitied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were pitied and patronised and had no rights whatever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Would it not be a thousand pities if this, the pioneer industrial country, did not preserve its most prominent monuments? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are told that they are hard done by and to be pitied, given their circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We feel that they are to be pitied, and we could, in many cases, suggest a remedy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To my mind, it would be a thousand pities if it was festooned with pylons and electric cables or was taken bit by bit for industrial development. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that time, we received pitying smiles. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In other words, if there are options for change, for pity's sake let us know what they are, let us consider them and let us debate them rationally. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is ten thousand pities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a provision, administered well and carefully by all concerned, would humanise and make happier the last years of many old people who are very greatly to be pitied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I feel that it is a thousand pities that miners who have such dangerous and arduous work to do at present receive such comparatively low wages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps one of the pities is that there are more women who are trying to achieve a deceptive slimness than who are even interested in equal pay to-day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a caricature is fast fading, but vegetarianism is still seen by those in authority as a mild form of eccentricity, to be pitied and patronised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here the late middle-aged and elderly may be treated with a certain degree of affection, it is true, but it is a mocking, condescending and pitying sort of affection. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What he was saying in the early part of his speech was that it was a thousand pities that we had not agreed new salary scales before the general election. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure the principle of it is sound, and it is a thousand pities that it was allowed virtually to lapse soon after the last war concluded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As an aged man, he will be pitied very much, but as to the responsibility for keeping him in comfort there will be a continual clash and a continual fight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is a thousand pities that any restrictive conditions were put on him at all and that they prevented him from making this report. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have also urged that it would be a thousand pities if, as a result of farmers standing men off, such men were lost to the agricultural industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No person can move through society preoccupied with his status, and having all his friends pitying him and sympathising with him about his preoccupation with status, without going wholly bad. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is a thousand pities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not surprisingly, her position was often depicted as one to be pitied, and the only way out of it was to get married. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A widow who remarried was looked down upon, pitied and shunned as unlucky. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Best was alternately loved as a great clown, then reviled, then pitied, finally virtually forgotten. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Generally, however, pretas are seen as beings to be pitied. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Hughie openly pities them, while also being disgusted and disturbed by their odd pastimes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The artist leaves the viewer to determine whether the woman should be condemned or pitied. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. While doing so, he pities the old woman and admires her for her persistence in a life of hardship. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They were caught several times, but pitied every time. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She pitied women for their subordination to men and inwardly rebelled whenever she heard people say that only boys needed education. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She originally believed he was simply using her, but later suspects he was pitying her. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When we go on strike, are we not displaying evidence of an absence of human qualities such as pity and kindness? His two daughters pitied the horse and were kind to it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Mahek refuses to return, citing that her yearning in life is to be loved and not to be pitied. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. I pity the poor artists who are constantly being asked to create something original in this direction. They may be doing so on the basis of pity, but pity can be good stuff in that way. Also, for a book published in 2004, it was a pity that the references contained no publications post-2002. The pity is that the book was not updated, rather than retitled and partially rewritten to no great effect. Take for example the values of helplessness (' mercy'), pity (' poorly') and irresponsibility (' not eating well') in the extracts. His lifelong wish, as a pacifist, was to expose the futility and pity of armed conflict. What a pity, however, that neither the glossary nor the main text follows any recognizable system of transliteration. She tells him that she pities the ghost of his alter ego, who has suffered and lost two fingers from his right hand. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Does not the pain felt by the spectator, filled with pity, have its charms? The narrator then discusses the woman's ex-boyfriends, many of whom have died and the narrator pities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The priest measured him with a pitying look. Sixteenth-century children who admitted their sins to the council were sent to the hospital and pitied. The outsider is not necessarily someone to be pitied. He is pitied yet envied, puny yet powerful. Moments such as these code blindness as undesirable and debilitating, as a condition to be pitied and feared. The lion: is it bemused, pitying, or threatening? The audience often pities the protagonist's dilemma. Already then, 230 years ago, an ageless application of burden was readily associated with subjective pain, others' pity and a heavy tax. In fact, their coming-of-age stories are remarkably straightforward and unsentimental, featuring few regrets and little self-pity. As the lowest of the low, he elicited in his readers both the pleasures of schadenfreude and sympathetic pity. What a pity, then, that its high price will prove prohibitive to many students, the group which would benefit most from it. More's the pity, but perhaps this excellent study will encourage those responsible to think again. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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