pity

英['pɪti] 美['pɪti]
  • n. 怜悯；同情；遗憾；可惜
  • v. 同情；怜悯
pityingly pities pitied pitied pitying pities
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星级词汇:
  • pity n.怜悯；同情；遗憾；可惜v.同情；怜悯

详细释义

    n. (名词)
    1. 怜悯
    2. 同情
    3. 遗憾
    4. 憾事
    5. 可惜的事
    6. 美中不足
    v. (动词)
    1. 同情
    2. 怜悯
    3. 怜惜
    4. 为...着想
    5. 觉得…可鄙
    n. (名词)
    1. [U]怜悯,同情 sympathy and solo for sb's suffering or unhappiness
    2. [S]可惜的事,憾事 a sad, unfortunate, inconvenient state of affairs; shame
    v. (动词)
    1. vt. 同情; 怜悯 feel pity for sb/sth
    2. vt. 觉得…可鄙 feel contempt for sb

英英释义

Noun:
  1. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others;

    "the blind are too often objects of pity"

  2. an unfortunate development;

    "it's a pity he couldn't do it"

  3. the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

Verb:
  1. share the suffering of

双语例句

1. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.
她抑制着心中的自怜，将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。

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2. Leo went on, his dark eyes wide with pity and concern.
利奥接着说下去，他的黑眼睛瞪得大大的，充满怜悯和关切。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Supposedly his last words to her were: "You must not pity me."
据说他对她说的最后一句话是：“别怜悯我。”

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4. She knew that she was an object of pity among her friends.
她知道自己是朋友们同情的对象。

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5. The pity of it was that the Americans didn't play cricket.
可惜的是美国人不打板球。

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    用作名词 (n.)
    1. The old lady often takes pity on small animals.
      那位老太太常常怜悯小动物。
    2. He remained unmoved by her entreaties for pity.
      他未因她恳求怜悯而动心。
    3. We took pity on the homeless girl and took her into our house.
      我们同情这个无家可归的女孩，让她住进了我们的屋子里。
    4. I helped her out of love, not out of pity.
      我帮助她是出于爱，而不是出于同情。
    5. It's a pity I have to get back to the grindstone.
      遗憾的是我不得不回去工作。
    6. It's a pity that you can't come to the party.
      你不能来参加这次聚会，真可惜。
    用作动词 (v.)
    1. I pity anyone who has to feed a family on such a low income.
      我同情任何需要以如此微薄的收入养活全家的人。
    2. He lay helpless in the street under the pitying gaze of the bystanders.
      他零零地躺在路边，旁观的人都投以怜悯的目光。
    用作名词 (n.)
    1. I feel no pity for you at all.
      我一点也不同情你。
    2. They even showed their enemies pity and kindness.
      他们竟对他们的敌人表示怜悯。
    3. The beggar's story excited my pity.
      这乞丐的经历激起我的怜悯。
    4. We watched her with sadness and enormous pity.
      我们怀着悲伤和极大的同情看着她。
    5. A pang of pity moved her heart.
      她心中突然萌生怜悯之情。
    6. She needs help, not pity.
      她需要帮助,不是怜悯。
    7. It's a pity that he can't come.
      很遗憾他不能来。
    8. It was a great pity that she gave up her own happiness and married a fortune.
      真令人遗憾,她竟牺牲了个人的幸福与一位富人结婚了。
    9. It's a pity that he should be so ill.
      他竟然病得这么厉害,真是太遗憾了。
    10. It's a thousand pities that you can't go with us.
      你不能和我们一起去真是万分遗憾。
    11. Pity he has never been there.
      他从未去过那里真是件憾事。
    12. What a pity that you did not arrive by the midnight.
      你在午夜前没有到达,多可惜呀!
    13. What a pity (that) she isn't here!
      她不在这里,真遗憾!
    用作动词 (v.)
    用作及物动词 S+～+ n./pron.
    1. Why do you pity her?
      你为什么同情她?
    2. We pity those unfortunate villagers very much.
      我们非常同情那些不幸的村民。
    3. I pity the flood victims.
      我同情遭水灾的人。
    4. I sincerely pity these unfortunate beings.
      我真诚地同情这些不幸的人。
    5. I pity you if you think this is an acceptable way to behave.
      你要是认为这种行为可以接受,那你就太可鄙了。
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    6. He does not want to be pitied.
      他不想要人家可怜他。
    7. The lonely old man was much to be pitied by all of us.
      那位孤独的老人应该得到我们大家的同情。
    8. The cold and hungry children were much to be pitied.
      那些饥寒交迫的孩子们十分可怜。
    9. I think it better to be envied than to be pitied.
      我认为被人怜悯还不如被人妒忌。
    10. Such a man as he is not to be pitied.
      像他这种人不值得同情。

用法讲解

n. (名词)
  1. pity的基本意思是“怜悯,同情”,指在别人遭遇不幸时所产生的怜悯之情,是不可数名词,一般不与不定冠词连用。
  2. pity也可作“可惜的事,令人遗憾的事”解,为可数名词,但往往只用于单数形式,前面常加不定冠词a,常用于“It is/was a pity...”结构,其后可接动词不定式,也可接that从句。在口语中that可以省略, that从句中有时可用虚拟语气。有时还可以把it is省去,直接用pity作为句子的开头。
  3. pity也常用于“What a pity”结构中,其后可接动词不定式或that从句。
  4. pity有时也可用于反语,表示鄙视之情,指鄙视地怜悯那些由于不幸或天生较弱而条件不优越者。
v. (动词)
  1. pity的基本意思是“同情”,即对某人遭受不幸时表示怜悯。有时可用于反语,表示“认为(某人)可鄙”。
  2. pity是及物动词,接名词、代词作宾语,可用于被动结构。
n. (名词)
pity, compassion, mercy, sympathy
  • 这组词都有“同情”或“可怜”的意思。其区别在于:pity通常只表示内心感到难过或同情,少给予帮助; sympathy指“同情心”或“恻隐之心”,强调共同分担,进而对某种经历或遭遇引起共鸣; compassion指“同情心”,强调由于理解而同情,并主动给予帮助,常常指通过自身痛苦或不幸而同情别人; mercy指“仁慈”或“怜悯”,含有主动救助别人脱离苦难之义。例如:
  • It is a pity that such an ability as him should be employed about such trifle matters.真可惜,像他这样有才能的人竟然被用来做这类琐事。
  • Her own experiences had taught her to have compassion for misunderstood children.她自身的遭遇使她认识到应对那些受到误解的孩子予以同情。
  • The criminal pleaded with the jury for mercy.犯人恳求陪审团宽恕他。
  • He was moved with sympathy.他动了恻隐之心。
    • pity，mercy，sympathy，compassion
  • 这些名词均有“同情、怜悯”之意。
  • pity指对弱者、不幸者所表示的怜惜之情。
  • mercy侧重指对应受惩罚或地位卑下者的慈悲或怜悯。
  • sympathy普通常用词，含义广。指志趣、看法上的一致，也指感情相投，带有深深的恻隐之心的亲切之情。
  • compassion较正式较庄重用词，指对同等人的同情与理解，常含急切愿意帮忙的意味。
    • 用作名词 (n.)
    for pity's sake
      请发发慈悲吧 please be merciful
    more's the pity
      〈非正〉不幸地,遗憾地 unfortunately
    out of pity
      出于同情 helping sb because one feels pity
    用作动词 (v.)
    pity in (v.+prep.)
      可怜…,同情… feel pity for sb/sth
      pity sb in sth

      Pity us in our distress.

      可怜可怜我们的苦难吧。

      The fellow doesn't pity anyone in their distress.

      这家伙不同情任何人的苦难。

    用作名词 (n.)
    动词+～ 形容词+～ 介词+～ ～+介词
    用作动词 (v.)
    ～+名词 ～+副词

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