piteous
英 [ˈpɪtiəs] 美 [ˈpɪtiəs]

adj.

使人怜悯的，可怜的；

英英释义

piteous[ 'pitiəs ]

• adj.deserving or inciting pity

  "piteous appeals for help"

  同义词：haplessmiserablemisfortunatepatheticpitiablepitifulpoorwretched

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. We heard piteous sounds of suffering and pain.
   我们听到可怜的痛苦受难的呻吟。
2. The politician found the piteous cries of the starving children unbearable.
   这个政治家发现饥饿的孩子们可怜的哭声让人不忍心听下去。

权威例句

A Piteous Plaint
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A Piteous Victim——An Exploration into the Psychological Trace of the Grandmother in The Acorn-gatherer
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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
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Eurydice: At the border between mourning and melancholia, the piteous gesture. A collection of thoughts around a myth and a poem