詞語:pathetic
pathetic是什麼意思
簡明英漢詞典
pathetic
[pE5Wetik]
adj.
可憐的, 悲慘的
美國傳統詞典[雙解]
pathetic
pa.thet.ic
AHD:[p…-thμt「1k] 也作 pa.thet.i.cal [-1-k…l]
D.J.[p*6Getik]也作 pa.thet.i.cal [ik*l]
K.K.[p*6GWt!k]也作 pa.thet.i.cal [!k*l]
adj.(形容詞)
(1)Arousing or capable of arousing sympathetic sadness and compassion.
令人同情的,可憐的:激發或能夠激發傷感和同情的
(2)Arousing or capable of arousing scornful pity.
又笨又可憐的,無價值的:引起或能夠引髮帶有輕蔑色彩的憐憫的
語源
(1)French pathetique
法語 pathetique
(2)from Late Latin path?s
源自 後期拉丁語 path?s
(3)from Greek path?s [sensitive]
源自 希臘語 path?s [敏感的]
(4)from path?s [liable to suffer]
源自 path?s [易於遭受苦難的]
(5)from pathos [suffering] * see k went(h)-
源自 pathos [痛苦,苦難] *參見 k went(h)-
繼承用法
pathet「ically
adv.(副詞)
參考詞彙
(1)pathetic, pitiful, pitiable, piteous, lamentable
(2)These adjectives describe one that inspires or deserves pity. Something pathetic elicits sympathetic sadness and compassion:
這些形容詞都指激發或贏得同情的人或物。Pathetic 表示傷感和同情:
「Everything human is pathetic」 (Mark Twain). Often the word refers to what is so poor that it arouses scornful pity:
「人類具有同情心」 (馬克·吐溫)。這個詞常指因十分貧窮而引起輕視的憐憫:
The academic standards in the school were pathetic. Both pitiful and pitiable apply to what is touchingly sad:
學校的學術水平低得可憐。 Pitiful 和 pitiable 都用於指令人感傷的東西:
「She told a most pitiful story」 (Samuel Butler).
「她講敘了一個十分令人感傷的故事」 (塞繆爾·巴特勒)。
「The emperor had been in a state of pitiable vacillation」 (William Hickling Prescott). Sometimes the terms connote contemptuous pity, as for what is hopelessly inept or inadequate:
「皇帝曾處於令人可憐的舉棋不定狀態」 (威廉·希克林·普雷斯科特)。這兩個詞有時暗指輕蔑的同情,如令人絕望地無能或不合適的東西:
「If when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation . . . acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world」 (Richard M. Nixon).
「如果當情況危急時,世界上最強大的國家…像一個可憐的無助的巨人,那麼集權主義和獨裁勢力將會威脅到全世界的自由國家和組織機構」 (理查德·M·尼克松)。
「That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units」 (Thomas Hardy).
「那個被稱為地球的沖積而成的寒冷球體,整體是如此令人生懼,各部分又是那麼懦弱甚至令人生憐」 (托馬斯·哈代)。
(3)Piteous applies to what cries out for pity:
Piteous 用於指因可憐喊出的:
「They . . . made piteous lamentation to us to save them」 (Daniel Defoe).
「他們向我們示以令人可憐的悲傷來自保」 (丹尼爾·笛福)。
(4)Lamentable suggests the evocation of pity mixed with sorrow:
Lamentable 指含有悲傷的同情的喚起:
「Tell thou the lamentable tale of me,/And send the hearers weeping to their beds」 (Shakespeare).See also Synonyms at moving
「講述我的悲傷故事/讓聽者痛不欲生」 (莎士比亞)參見同義詞 moving
現代英漢詞典
pathetic
[pE5WetIk]
adj.
(1)哀憐的;令人難過的;引起憐憫的;悲慘的
(2)不值得的;毫無希望成功的
用法詞典
pathetic
拉丁語patheticus