英 [pəˈθetɪk] 美 [pəˈθetɪk]
adj. 令人怜悯的,可怜的;无用的,差劲的;感伤的
比较级more pathetic
最高级most pathetic
pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/ CET6 TEM4
形容词 If you describe a person or animal as pathetic, you mean that they are sad and weak or helpless, and they make you feel very sorry for them. 可怜的
...a pathetic little dog with a curly tail.
…一只可怜的卷尾小狗。
The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight.
那一小群旁观者显出一幅可怜的样子。
副词 可怜地
She was pathetically thin.
她那时瘦弱得可怜。
形容词 If you describe someone or something as pathetic, you mean that they make you feel impatient or angry, often because they are weak or not very good. 差劲的; 无力的
What pathetic excuses.
多么无力的借口!
Don't be so pathetic.
别那么差劲。
副词 差劲地; 无力地
Five women in a group of 18 people is a pathetically small number.
18个人中5位女性是个小得可怜的数目。
inspiring scornful pity
同义词: ridiculous / silly
悲哀的
... 可怜的;悲惨的;使人很不舒服的;肮脏的:wretched 可怜的,悲惨的:pathetic 可理解的,明白易懂的,清楚的:intelligible ...
... pala(ce)(皇宫)+table(桌子)→ 皇宫的桌子上都令人满意的美味佳肴 pathetic / / adj.悲惨的,差劲的 path(小径)+etic→小径上常常会遇到打劫的→结局当然是悲惨的 ...
pathetically 可怜地;感伤地;悲哀地;情绪上地
It's ridiculous, it's pathetic, it's a joke.
这真是荒唐、可悲、可笑。
She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic.
她现在看上去瘦小而干瘪,甚是可怜。
The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight.
那一小群旁观者显出一幅可怜的样子。
But that was probably the best thing I could have done. She looked at it.It was pathetic.
VOA : special.2010.02.08
This is called the pathetic fallacy.
这种手法叫感情误置。
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So that's very sad, that part of his art was very very sad. But I still, I feel pathetic as I say in the last pages or so, but I never lost admire of his fortitude in going on and doing as much as he did.
这太令人伤感了,他的艺术也是很伤感的,我在书里最后几页表示了对他的同情,但是我,从来没有停止崇敬他,坚持不懈地做了这么多的精神。
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Italy's foreign minister recently called the U.S.leadership in the crisis a "pathetic" failure.
VOA : standard.2010.01.26
You should be in a sideshow. You're so pathetic!
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The six call-center employees were answering a pathetic total of 20 to 40 calls a day.
Deputy Hill said his comments had been "pathetic and not becoming of a minister".
While that is a fairly pathetic use of my time, someone has to do it .
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