| 词汇 | pitiful |
| 释义 | pitiful adjective uk /ˈpɪt.i.fəl/ us /ˈpɪt̬.i.fəl/ making people feel sympathy: 可怜的，令人同情的 The refugees arriving at the camp had pitiful stories to tell.抵达营地的难民都有令人同情的故事可讲。 C2 used to say that you consider something to be very bad or not satisfactory or not enough: 糟糕的；令人不满意的；不足的 a pitiful state of affairs糟糕的事态 The amount of time and money being spent on researching this disease is pitiful.花费在研究该疾病上的时间和金钱少得可怜。 Synonyms piteous pitiableformal 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Useless and futile Related wordspitifully pitifulness pitiful | American Dictionarypitiful adjective us/ˈpɪt̬·ɪ·fəl/(alsopitiable, us/ˈpɪt̬·i·ə·bəl/) Something described as pitiful is not considered to be satisfactory or deserving of respect: The party is a pitiful example of an opposition party. pitifullyadverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈpɪt̬·ɪ·fə·li, -fli/(alsopitiably, us/ˈpɪt̬·i·ə·bli/) I was pitifully ill-informed. Examples of pitifulpitiful What pitiful doom struck you down? How pitiful it all is—fiddling while the pound is burning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On a more serious note, democratic scrutiny of these declarations is, of course, pitiful. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If we look at the situation regarding the application of conventions in the same area, we see that the situation is pitiful. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We must finally stop seeing minority groups, such as immigrants, as pitiful. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I think that that is a pitiful approach. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sight of a magnificent animal such as this being in terror of a human being is, to put it mildly, pitiful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not going over the pitiful story of the advance and the withdrawal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a pitiful membership in this country which, at the beginning of 1961, numbered some 27,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He drew a most pitiful picture of the condition of the officers of this force. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, they are poor, pitiful creatures forced to live in these conditions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a pitiful share of the regional fund of £262 million which will build one mile of motorway. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The new proposals represent a pitiful picture for over 213,000 employees in that industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, it indicated possibly a state of mental adolescence bordering almost on the indecent or the pitiful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are dealing with a transparent and perhaps pitiful little bribe. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of pitiful 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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