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pit·e·ous
pI ti s
比较级:more piteous
最高级:most piteous
piteously (adv.), piteousness (n.)
词根:piteous
adj.pitiful 可怜的,令人同情的
pitiable 可怜的
adv.piteously 可怜地;慈悲地
pitiably 可怜地;卑劣地
Adjective
1. deserving or inciting pity;
"a hapless victim"
"miserable victims of war"
"the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy
"piteous appeals for help"
"pitiable homeless children"
"a pitiful fate"
"Oh, you poor thing"
"his poor distorted limbs"
"a wretched life"
大约公元1300年, pitous,意为“慈悲的,充满怜悯”(这种意义现已过时; OED 的最后一条引用是在1855年); 同时也表示“引起或值得怜悯,如令人悲伤的,令人悲痛的”,源自盎格鲁-法语 pitous,古法语 pitos, piteus “虔诚的,慈悲的,富有怜悯心的; 可怜的”(12c.,现代法语 piteux ),源自中世纪拉丁语 pietosus “慈悲的,可怜的”(还有西班牙语 piadoso ),在通俗拉丁语中意为“恭敬的”,源自拉丁语 pietas “恭敬的行为,怜悯”(见 piety )。此外,中古英语中也意味着“虔诚的,正直的,敬虔的”。由于某些不规律的发展形式,法语单词的正确音韵发展应该是 *pitous (根据 OED)。相关词汇: Piteously; piteousness 。
The first known use of piteous was in the 14th century
pithyadjective
consisting of or filled with pith
being short and to the point
a pithy saying
pithyadjective
consisting of or filled with pith
being short and to the point
a pithy saying
pithnoun
the loose spongy tissue that forms the center of the stem in most plants and probably functions chiefly in storage
the spongy inside of a bone or feather
the essential part : core
the pith of the problem
pitfallnoun
trap entry 1 sense 1, snareespecially: a covered or camouflaged pit used to capture animals or people
a danger or difficulty that is hidden or is not easily recognized
pitfallnoun
trap entry 1 sense 1, snareespecially: a covered or camouflaged pit used to capture animals or people
a danger or difficulty that is hidden or is not easily recognized
piteousadjective
of a kind to move to pity
piteous cries for help
piteousadjective
of a kind to move to pity
piteous cries for help
1 I rushed back into the house, into our bedroom, threw open the closet, yanked my black dress off its hanger, ripping the right sleeve, waking Jaimito with my piteous crying.
2 The child cried out in a piteous voice.
3 She dropped her voice, and looked so sad and piteous .
她把声音放得很低,一副悲悲戚戚的样子,真是可怜。
4 We heard piteous sounds of suffering and pain.
我们听到可怜的痛苦受难的呻吟。
5 “I didn’t mean any harm,” I begged, making piteous gestures.
6 John looked piteous, like a drowned mouse.
约翰那模样好惨, 活像一只落水的老鼠.
7 But after Kiran’s death, Paliwal, the village chief, vowed there would be no more piteous wailing when a girl child was born.
8 Henceforth no effort of mine, no piteous cry or agonised entreaty, would make them even look at me.
9 Speaking in the voice of a perfectly reasonable bureaucrat, Swift begins by describing the piteous state of beggars and their children “all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.”
10 As I type this — alone in an upstairs room — a piteous sound is issuing from the floor below.
11 After tests were returned and grades given, the student body, which acted like an extended family, knew who did well, who excelled, and what piteous ones had failed.
12 This other kind of pet story is full of animal peril and animal pathos, often underscored by piteous whimpers or forlorn mewing.
13 Proper Form: From a standing or running position, hurtle your body through spacetime in a piteous attempt to catch an object that’s flying six feet away from you.
14 Because the Grammys telecast draws generations of viewers, and because Grammy voters are drawn from a wide pool that skews older, what emerges on the show, and in the awards themselves, is a kind of piteous compromise that holds real innovation at bay.
15 Nakano pulls off a difficult balancing act with the piteous, whimpering Tasuku, who nevertheless invites our empathy with his sincere hope for change.
16 I must have struck a sufficiently piteous figure because she gathered me in for a hug and a kiss, “It’s nothing to cry over, sweet one. Just remember to always think about what you’re doing.”
17 Summer gave a piteous whine, his legs kicking against the cords that bound them.
18 One old account states that authorities took notice when ibn Said scrawled “piteous petitions” in Arabic on the walls of the jail.
19 After the exclamation of surprise that broke from Vereshtchagin he uttered a piteous cry of pain, and that cry was his undoing.
韦列复金在发出那声惊叫之后,紧接着又痛得他可怜地呼喊,而这一声呼喊倒要了他的命。
20 John looked piteous, like a drowned mouse.
约翰那模样好惨,活像一只落水的老鼠。
3 慈悲
humane gracious merciful propitious humanely mercifully charity grace humanity mercy remorse tender pitiful remorseful sparing quarter lenity charitable bountiful love misericordia Samaritanism
4 可悲的
5 可怜
poor miserable pathetic wretched pitiful deplorable abject affecting pitiable lachrymose miserably pathetically pitifully lamentably wretchedly plaintively piteously wretchedness sorriness sorrow pity pitiably sorry forlorn accursed lamentable rueful pathos in a pickle feel pity for SAD unhappy sympathetic unlucky desolate woeful squalid eleemosynary have mercy on little appealing puny sad bum sordid sorrowful ratty plaintive dickey unblessed petitionary niddering nidering cat commiserable donsie grotty woful groaty
6 凄惨
sad terrific dismal mournful abjective tragically disastrously wretchedly abjectly direfully wretchedness
7 令人怜悯的
8 可怜的
poor miserable pathetic wretched pitiful deplorable abject affecting pitiable lachrymose sorry puny dismal forlorn accursed lamentable rueful SAD unhappy sympathetic unlucky desolate woeful squalid eleemosynary little appealing sad bum sordid sorrowful ratty plaintive dickey unblessed petitionary niddering nidering commiserable donsie grotty woful groaty
9 值得同情的
10 令人同情的
11 悲惨的
poor sorry unfortunate tragic unhappy cruel miserable dire pathetic dismal distressing wretched desolate harrowing abject sorrowful forlorn baleful godforsaken distressful direful woful scungy funest lacerant
12 悲惨
poor sorry unfortunate tragic unhappy cruel miserable dire pathetic dismal distressing wretched desolate harrowing abject sorrowful forlorn baleful godforsaken distressful direful woful scungy funest lacerant sadly miserably unhappily desolation squalor sordor
13 有同情心的