Pitiful

(a.) Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.

(a.) Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.

(a.) To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.

阿维斯整理

• Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• At times his voice broke, and he was forced to stop reading for the pitiful hopelessness that spoke between the lines. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Then, seizing Captain Dobbin's hand, and weeping in the most pitiful way, he confided to that gentleman the secret of his loves. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Miss Osborne, on the other hand, thought of old times and memories and could not but be touched with the poor mother's pitiful situation. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She forced a pitiful smile that pinched her face instead of smoothing it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• A pitiful and plaintive look, with which she had begun to regard him when she was still extremely young, was perhaps a part of this discovery. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• She struck Archer, of a sudden, as a pathetic and even pitiful figure. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• There is something in the sound of Mr. _Edmund_ Bertram so formal, so pitiful, so younger-brother-like, that I detest it. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• By heavens it is pitiful, the bootless love of women for children in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But what shall we think of a governor playing such pitiful tricks, and imposing so grossly upon a poor ignorant boy! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Come, let me see the list of pitiful fellows who have been kept aloof by Lydia's folly. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• It was the pitiful sight of a man standing in the very focus of sorrow. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She had been wearing a loose dressing-gown of purple silk, tied round her waiSt. She looked so small and childish and vulnerable, almost pitiful. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• How the deuce am I to keep up my position in the world upon such a pitiful pittance? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But what have I done to you, she continued in a more pitiful tone, that you should try and take him from me? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But the chap ne'er stopped driving the plough, I'se warrant, for all he were pitiful about the daisy. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• They are the sorriest beasts that breathe--the most abject--the most pitiful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He lay gasping upon the floor of the chamber, his great eyes fastened upon me in what seemed a pitiful appeal for protection. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Plutarch tells of a pitiful scene that occurred at Philip's marriage to Cleopatra. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Bless yo'r sweet pitiful face! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The pursuit of Darius III soon came to a pitiful end. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Why dun yo' stare at me wi' your great pitiful eyes? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I never saw a sight so pitiful as this before! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He beat upon his great chest with his clenched fists, and then he fell upon the body of Kala and sobbed out the pitiful sorrowing of his lonely heart. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• There was a pitiful contraction of suffering upon her beautiful brows, although there was no other sign of consciousness remaining. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But you're in a pitiful little minority: you've got no centre, no competition, no audience. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Until about the middle of the Nineteenth Century the survivor of an operation was an unsymmetrical, unique, and pitiful object. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• But at this moment he suddenly saw himself as a pitiful rascal who was robbing two women of their savings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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