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Self Pity Feeling Focused People Piety 英 美 N.(尤指过度的)自怜;自哀 Time

英语单词 self-pity
英美音标 英 美
中文释义 n.(尤指过度的)自怜;自哀
英语例句 (1) It wasn't the best time to start wallowing in my own self pity, though.
(2) He was trying to forget in a self--pitying haze that deepened day by day.
中文例句 (1) 现在可不是独自藏在自怜的世界里的时候。
(2) 他在一天浓似一天的自哀自怜的迷雾中努力忘却痛苦。
vocabulary简明 If you're completely focused on feeling bad about your own problems and complaints, you're feeling self-pity. Your self-pity can make it hard to appreciate that other people face more serious troubles than you do.
vocabulary扩展 When you feel sorry for yourself, or overly sad about the difficulties you face, you're indulging in self-pity. It's often easier to identify self-pity in other people than in yourself, partly because your own self-pity keeps your attention focused inward. Before the 17th century, pity and piety meant the same thing, "compassion, care, or tenderness." Today piety means "religious reverence."
柯林斯解释
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](尤指不必要或过度夸张的)自怜,自哀 Self-pity is a feeling of unhappiness that you have about yourself and your problems, especially when this is unnecessary or greatly exaggerated.
  [disapproval]
  • I was unable to shake off my self-pity...

    我无法摆脱自怜自哀的情绪。

  • Throughout, he showed no trace of self-pity.

    他从始至终都没有表现出一丝的自怜。

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