pitifully

英

美

adv.  可怜地; 可恨地

BNC.20451 / COCA.25006

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 令人怜悯的；使人同情的；可怜的
  Someone or something that ispitifulis so sad, weak, or small that you feel pity for them.
  1. He sounded both pitiful and eager to get what he wanted...
     他听起来既可怜兮兮的，又对想要的东西充满渴望。
  2. It was the most pitiful sight I had ever seen.
     这是我看到过的最令人同情的一幕。
• ADJ-GRADED 匮乏的；极度欠缺的
  If you describe something aspitiful, you mean that it is completely inadequate.
  1. The choice is pitiful and the quality of some of the products is very low...
     选择余地极小，而且其中一些产品的质量很差。
  2. The farmers pay pitiful wages, often in the form of food and clothes.
     农场主支付的报酬少得可怜，还经常是以食物和衣服的形式。
• ADJ-GRADED 可鄙的；不值得考虑的
  If you describe something aspitiful, you mean that it does not deserve respect or consideration.
  1. This argument seems to show a pitiful lack of confidence in the capabilities of our juries.
     这一论点似乎表现出对我们陪审团能力的极度不信任，而这种不信任是可悲的。

英英释义

adv

• to a pitiful degree
  1. wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women

双语例句

• Together with the pitifully few survivors of Nazi-occupied Europe, they became the core population of the new state of Israel.
  加上纳粹占领的欧洲地区少得可怜的犹太幸存者，他们一起形成了建立以色列国的核心人口。
• The child was pitifully thin.
  那孩子瘦得可怜。
• But also pitifully, my father did not realize his dream.
  然而同样遗憾的是，父亲没能实现他的梦想，因为他缺乏资金。
• The older dog was staring up at the sky, whining pitifully.
  那大点儿的狗朝天张望，凄然哀叫。
• Those who huddled pitifully together on the left were the old, the infirm, the ill, the very young.
  那些可怜地挤在左边的人都是些老、弱、病、幼者。
• The children were pitifully thin and neglected.
  孩子们又瘦弱又没人照顾，真让人可怜。
• So what absolutely makes you nuts is having to take orders from someone who's not only less qualified than yourself, but also pitifully less suited to the position.
  你最不能忍受的就是让你听命于那些才干不如你且并不适合这个位置的人。
• I never realized that he was so pitifully ( or pathetically) ignorant.
  他竟然无知到这样可怜的程度！
• But some banks have continued to offer these products, which remain popular because they offer an attractive return in an environment with pitifully low savings rates and languishing equity and property markets.
  但一些银行继续提供这些产品；在储蓄利率低得可怜、股市和房地产市场未见起色的环境中，这些产品因提供有吸引力的回报而仍然抢手。
• I shook my head from side to side, pitifully.
  我可怜兮兮地不住摇头。