pathetic
柯林斯詞典
1. ADJ 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. 可憐的
...a pathetic little dog with a curly tail. …一只可憐的卷尾小狗。
The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight. 那一小群旁觀者顯出一幅可憐的樣子。
2. patheticallyADV 可憐地
She was pathetically thin. 她那時瘦弱得可憐。
3. ADJ 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. 差勁的; 無力的[表不滿]
What pathetic excuses. 多么無力的借口！
Don't be so pathetic. 別那么差勁。
4. patheticallyADV 差勁地; 無力地[ADV adj]
Five women in a group of 18 people is a pathetically small number. 18個人中5位女性是個小得可憐的數(shù)目。
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pathetic /p??θ?t?k/
劍橋詞典
pathetic adjective (SAD)
causing feelings of sadness, sympathy , or sometimes lack of respect , especially because a person or an animal is suffering招人憐憫的，可憐的
The refugees were a pathetic sight - starving , frightened and cold . 難民看起來實在可憐——饑寒交迫，擔驚受怕。
After the accident he became a pathetic figure , a shadow of his former self . 事故后他成了一個可憐人，與之前判若兩人。
也見 pathos
pathetic adjective (UNSUCCESSFUL)
C2 disapprovingunsuccessful or showing no ability , effort , or bravery , so that people feel no respect
無用的；差勁的；懦弱的
a pathetic attempt /joke /excuse 無用的嘗試／差勁的笑話／蹩腳的借口
Are you telling me you're frightened to speak to her? Don't be so pathetic! 你是在說你不敢跟她講話嗎？別太窩囊了！ 返回 pathetic