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pathetic

英 [pə'θetɪk]美 [pə'θɛtɪk]

adj. 可憐的，悲哀的；感傷的；乏味的

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中文詞源

pathetic 令人同情的，可憐的，可悲的

來自拉丁語patheticus,來自希臘語pathein,忍受，遭受，詞源同passion,pathos.引申詞義同感的，同悲的，令人同情的，後用於指可憐的，可悲的。

英語詞源

pathetic (adj.)

1590s, "affecting the emotions, exciting the passions," from Middle French pathétique

"moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer" (see pathos). Meaning "arousing pity, pitiful" is first recorded 1737. Colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested from 1937. Related: Pathetical (1570s); pathetically. Pathetic fallacy (1856, first used by Ruskin) is the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects.

權威例句

1. We encountered the pathetic sight of a family packing up its home.

我們目睹了一家人正在收拾家當準備離開的悽慘景象。

2. It's a pound for a small glass of wine, which is pathetic.

一小杯葡萄酒要1英鎊，真差勁。

3. She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic.

她現在看起來瘦小枯槁，很可憐。

4. It's ridiculous, it's pathetic, it's a joke.

這真荒謬，簡直是可悲、可笑。

5. Don't be so pathetic.

別那麼討人厭。

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