| 词汇 | pathetic |
| 释义 | pathetic adjective uk /pəˈθet.ɪk/ us /pəˈθet̬.ɪk/ patheticadjective (SAD)C2 causing feelings of sadness, sympathy, or sometimes lack of respect, especially because a person or an animal is suffering: 招人怜悯的，可怜的 The refugees were a pathetic sight - starving, frightened and cold.难民看起来实在可怜——饥寒交迫，担惊受怕。 After the accident he became a pathetic figure, a shadow of his former self.事故后他成了一个可怜人，与之前判若两人。 See also pathosliterary Sympathy & compassion aw bad/hard/tough luck!idiom better luck next timeidiom bleeding heart cheese heart-wrenching heart-wrenchingly heartrending pitifully pitifulness pity pityingly poor relate sensitivity sympathetic sympathize sympathy your heart achesidiom your heart goes out to someoneidiom patheticadjective (UNSUCCESSFUL)C2disapproving unsuccessful or showing no ability, effort, or bravery, so that people feel no respect : 无用的；差劲的；懦弱的 a pathetic attempt/joke/excuse无用的尝试／差劲的笑话／蹩脚的借口 Are you telling me you're frightened to speak to her? Don't be so pathetic!你是在说你不敢跟她讲话吗？别太窝囊了！ not producing a desired result unsuccessfulOur attempts to change the law were unsuccessful. failedThe company went bankrupt pouring money into yet another failed product. badSales have been really bad this quarter. fruitlessAll our pleas that she remain in university were fruitless - she left anyway. unfruitfulThe negotiations were unfruitful. Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Not of good quality Related wordpathetically pathetic | American Dictionarypathetic adjective us/pəˈθet̬·ɪk/ patheticadjective (SAD)causing feelings of sadness or sympathy: I think it’s pathetic that only half of the eligible voters tend to vote. patheticadjective (UNSUCCESSFUL)unsuccessful, useless, or worthless: a pathetic excuse Bernie’s hitting was pretty pathetic! patheticallyadverbus/pəˈθet̬·ɪ·kli/ a pathetically small dog Examples of patheticpathetic We begin with "our naked shivering nature," an almost pathetic presence. The poem also nods towards the bucolic realm in its use of the pathetic fallacy, where elements of nature are imbued with feeling. A small band of man-apes are on the long, pathetic road to racial extinction. The ingrates, formerly beautiful women, must now live as pathetic and horrifyingly ugly souls because they scorned their suitors. The baritone's role as protagonist was regarded as unusually challenging, requiring a gamut of emotions from the noble and majestic to the pathetic and vulnerable. The pathetic tone of this work is exceptional. I was amazed at the beautifully pathetic story he had made of it. Instead of a consolidated bibliography, the reader is given a pathetic two-page guide to further reading. It is pathetic to discuss whether we ration, we always do everywhere : the issue is not whether but how to ration. If you do, you are either saintly or pathetic. In this sense, recognition of the era of recording is not a pre-requisite for memory material to produce a pathetic engagement. The belief in technical and legal engineering, especially before independence, is often extreme, if not pathetic. Two such examples of realistic and 'pathetic' racial film melodramas were released in 1915 with an unprecedented nationwide success. The equivalent point in the finale (from bar 76) presents another kind of free vocalizing, like a purely melodic cadenza in pathetic style. Seen from this angle, the castrati were, so to speak, turned inside out; no longer simply monstrous, they became pathetic, endowed with feelings. 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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