piteous

英式音标：[ˈpɪtiəs]播放读音

美式音标：[ˈpɪtiəs]播放读音

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概况：

adj. 可怜的；哀怨的；慈悲的

词义：

adj.

使人怜悯的，可怜的；

英英释义

piteous[ 'pitiəs ]

adj.deserving or inciting pity

"piteous appeals for help"

同义词：haplessmiserablemisfortunatepatheticpitiablepitifulpoorwretched

用法：

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

We heard piteous sounds of suffering and pain.
我们听到可怜的痛苦受难的呻吟。

The politician found the piteous cries of the starving children unbearable.
这个政治家发现饥饿的孩子们可怜的哭声让人不忍心听下去。

权威例句

A Piteous Plaint

A piteous,chaste jade:Reviewing the causation of Du shiniang tragedy

'Piteous overthrows' : pity and identity in early modern English literature

A Piteous Victim——An Exploration into the Psychological Trace of the Grandmother in The Acorn-gatherer

A Series of Piteous Tales: Divorce Law and Divorce Culture in Early Twentieth-Century New South Wales

Piteous performances : representations of infanticide and its contexts in Tudor and Stuart literature of stage and street

‘Repetitious accounts so piteous and so harrowing’: the ideological work of American slave narratives in England

A Mirror for Magistrates in Context: ‘A miserable time full of piteous tragedyes’

“The Most Arch act of Piteous Massacre/that Ever yet this Land was Guilty Of”: How Shakespeare’s Method of Exposing Richard Diffe...

Eurydice: At the border between mourning and melancholia, the piteous gesture. A collection of thoughts around a myth and a poem

同义词：wretched,poor

同根词：pitiful,pitiably,pitiable,piteously,piteous

英语词源：

piteous (adj.)

c. 1300, from Anglo-French pitous, Old French pitos "pious; merciful, compassionate, moved to pity; pitiful" (12c., Modern French piteux), from Medieval Latin pietosus "merciful, pitiful," in Vulgar Latin "dutiful," from Latin pietas "dutiful conduct, compassion" (see piety). Related: Piteously; piteousness.

造句：

1. in a miserable [piteous] plight

在凄惨的 [可怜的] 境况中

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. We heard piteous sounds of suffering and pain.

我们听到可怜的痛苦受难的呻吟。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. The dog gave a piteous cry.

这狗发出可怜的叫声。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. John looked piteous, like a drowned mouse.

约翰那模样好惨，活像一只落水的老鼠。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

5. a piteous cry, sight, story

值得同情的哭声、 情景、 事情

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

6. in a piteous condition

可怜的境地.

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

7. With a final realization of the immensity of her love and the piteous plight it had brought upon her.

克莱终于理解到她那无边的爱和这悲惨的婚约给她带来的是什么。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

8. They.made piteous lamentation to us to save them(Daniel Defoe.

他们向我们示以令人可怜的悲伤来自保（丹尼尔 笛福）。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

9. a piteous appeal for help.

令人怜悯地请求帮助

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例

10. He had seen the innocent face as it looked up to the Captain, the appealing look of the girl, the piteous quiver of the mouth, and the final outburst of tears.

他已看到那张仰视着上尉的天真的脸蛋，女孩子那恳求的目光，那嘴角边可怜的抽搐，那终于夺眶而出的眼泪。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句