pathetic
/pəˈθɛtɪk/ 形容词 B2中文： 可怜、可笑
- Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos. · The child’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.
- Arousing scorn or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy. · You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic.· You're almost 26 years old and you still can't hold a real job? That's pathetic.
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I used the most pathetic language I could think of and said ‘thou’ and ‘thee.’ ‘Thou’ and ‘thee’ seem so much more romantic than ‘you.’ Diana gave me a lock of her hair and I’m going to sew it up in a little bag and wear it around my neck all my life.
And the choir are going to sing four lovely pathetic songs that are pretty near as good as hymns.
Jane and Ruby almost always cry when I come to the pathetic parts.
That kind of puzzled us because the stories were all very pathetic and almost everybody died.
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