pathetic
pathetic 英 [pəˈθetɪk] 美 [pəˈθɛtɪk]
adj. 可怜的，可悲的，无力的
名词复数:pathetics
- Something pathetic inspires pity and contempt. If your backhand is pathetic, you probably shouldn't try out for the tennis team.
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- adj. 可怜的，可悲的，无力的
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1. a pathetic and lonely old man
可怜又孤独的老翁
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2. The starving children were a pathetic sight.
饥饿的儿童看起来是一幅凄惨的景象。
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3. a pathetic excuse
牵强的借口
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4. She made a pathetic attempt to smile.
她勉强地微微一笑。
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5. You're pathetic!
你真是废物！
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6. He cried pathetically.
他哭得很悲伤。
- 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" (from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer"). 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.
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