[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]可怜的;令人怜悯的;悲惨的 If you describe a person or animal as pathetic, you mean that they are sad and weak or helpless, and they make you feel very sorry for them.
...a pathetic little dog with a curly tail...
可怜的卷尾巴小狗
The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight...
这一小群旁观者看起来真是让人悲哀。
She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic.
她现在看起来瘦小枯槁,很可怜。
pathetically
She was pathetically thin.
她瘦得可怜。
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]差劲的;软弱的;令人生厌的 If you describe someone or something as pathetic, you mean that they make you feel impatient or angry, often because they are weak or not very good.
[disapproval]
What pathetic excuses...
多差劲的借口啊!
It's a pound for a small glass of wine, which is pathetic.
一小杯葡萄酒要1英镑,真差劲。
...the pathetic attempts at public speaking made by members of all parties...
所有政党党员在公开演讲时所作的令人生厌的尝试
Don't be so pathetic.
别那么讨人厌。
pathetically
Five women in a group of 18 people is a pathetically small number.
18人的小组中只有5个女性,真是少得可怜。
Oxford
path·et·ic/pəˈθetɪk; NAmEpəˈθetɪk/adjective1making you feel pity or sadness 可怜的;可悲的;令人怜惜的SYN
pitiful
◆a pathetic and lonely old man可怜又孤独的老翁◆The starving children were a pathetic sight.饥饿的儿童看起来是一幅凄惨的景象。2( informal,disapproving) weak and not successful 无力的;不成功的SYN
feeble
◆a pathetic excuse牵强的借口◆She made a pathetic attempt to smile.她勉强地微微一笑。◆You're pathetic!你真是废物!▶path·et·ic·al·ly/pəˈθetɪkli; NAmEpəˈθetɪkli/adverb◆He cried pathetically.他哭得很悲伤。◆a pathetically shy woman令人怜悯的腼腆女人path·et·ic/pəˈθetɪk; NAmEpəˈθetɪk/path·et·ic·al·ly/pəˈθetɪkli; NAmEpəˈθetɪkli/
LDC
patheticpa‧thet‧ic /pəˈθetɪk/ ●●○ adjective
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1something or someone that is pathetic is so useless, unsuccessful, or weak that they annoy you: You’re pathetic! Here, let me do it. I know it sounds pathetic now, but at the time I was frightened. Vic made a pathetic attempt to apologise.2making you feel pity or sympathy: The child looked a pathetic sight.—pathetically /-kli/ adverb: She whimpered pathetically.
WDF
pathetic
[pəˈθetɪk]
CET6TEM4考研GREIELTS
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ADJ10531
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可怜的(73%),悲哀的(12%),感伤的(9%),不足的(6%)
adj.可怜的,悲哀的;感伤的;乏味的
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