piteous

piteous怎么读

英式音标：[ˈpɪtiəs]

美式音标：[ˈpɪtiəs]

piteous基本解释

adj. 可怜的；哀怨的；慈悲的

piteous的意思释义

adj.

使人怜悯的，可怜的；

英英释义

adj.deserving or inciting pity

\"piteous appeals for help\"

同义词：haplessmiserablemisfortunatepatheticpitiablepitifulpoorwretched

piteous用法及例句

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*治家发现饥饿的孩子们可怜的哭声让人不忍心听下去。

例句参考

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

piteous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.

piteous相关例句

1.in a miserable [piteous] plight

在凄惨的 [可怜的] 境况中

2.We heard piteous sounds of suffering and pain.

我们听到可怜的痛苦受难的呻吟。

3.The dog gave a piteous cry.

这狗发出可怜的叫声。

4.John looked piteous, like a drowned mouse.

约翰那模样好惨，活像一只落水的老鼠。