Pitiful
['pɪtɪfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['pɪtɪfəl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
(a.) Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
(a.) To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
阿维斯整理
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Compassionate, tender, tender-hearted, sympathetic, kind, merciful, lenient, mild.[2]. Mean, base, vile, low, paltry, sorry, abject, rascally, contemptible, despicable, insignificant, worthless.
亚伯拉罕手打
同義詞及反義詞:
[See PITILESS]
雅克校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- At times his voice broke, and he was forced to stop reading for the pitiful hopelessness that spoke between the lines. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Then, seizing Captain Dobbin's hand, and weeping in the most pitiful way, he confided to that gentleman the secret of his loves. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Miss Osborne, on the other hand, thought of old times and memories and could not but be touched with the poor mother's pitiful situation. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She forced a pitiful smile that pinched her face instead of smoothing it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- A pitiful and plaintive look, with which she had begun to regard him when she was still extremely young, was perhaps a part of this discovery. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She struck Archer, of a sudden, as a pathetic and even pitiful figure. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- There is something in the sound of Mr. _Edmund_ Bertram so formal, so pitiful, so younger-brother-like, that I detest it. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- By heavens it is pitiful, the bootless love of women for children in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But what shall we think of a governor playing such pitiful tricks, and imposing so grossly upon a poor ignorant boy! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Come, let me see the list of pitiful fellows who have been kept aloof by Lydia's folly. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It was the pitiful sight of a man standing in the very focus of sorrow. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She had been wearing a loose dressing-gown of purple silk, tied round her waiSt. She looked so small and childish and vulnerable, almost pitiful. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- How the deuce am I to keep up my position in the world upon such a pitiful pittance? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But what have I done to you, she continued in a more pitiful tone, that you should try and take him from me? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But the chap ne'er stopped driving the plough, I'se warrant, for all he were pitiful about the daisy. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- They are the sorriest beasts that breathe--the most abject--the most pitiful. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He lay gasping upon the floor of the chamber, his great eyes fastened upon me in what seemed a pitiful appeal for protection. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Plutarch tells of a pitiful scene that occurred at Philip's marriage to Cleopatra. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Bless yo'r sweet pitiful face! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The pursuit of Darius III soon came to a pitiful end. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Why dun yo' stare at me wi' your great pitiful eyes? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I never saw a sight so pitiful as this before! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He beat upon his great chest with his clenched fists, and then he fell upon the body of Kala and sobbed out the pitiful sorrowing of his lonely heart. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- There was a pitiful contraction of suffering upon her beautiful brows, although there was no other sign of consciousness remaining. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- But you're in a pitiful little minority: you've got no centre, no competition, no audience. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Until about the middle of the Nineteenth Century the survivor of an operation was an unsymmetrical, unique, and pitiful object. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But at this moment he suddenly saw himself as a pitiful rascal who was robbing two women of their savings. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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