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

• South Korea, although a bigger trading partner than most of the pitifully small economies with which the US has signed bilateral pacts, still buys only 3 per cent of US goods exports.
  尽管相对于美国与之签订双边协议的多数不值一提的小国，韩国的规模较大，但也只有3%的美国货物出口流向韩国。
• Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
  可惜，大多数人的爱情，都是负重的。
• Humiliated all the more for having tried so pitifully hard.
  艰辛努力越多，受的羞辱就更多。
• 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 black guy pitifully yells and crookedly plants on the ground.
  黑色盔甲者惨叫一声，歪歪斜斜地栽倒在地上。
• In this year, he overcame difficulty; though pitifully lose the title, his name is now among those of the best drivers.
  今年，他克服了许多艰难，尽管充满遗憾地失去了冠军，他的名字已经在最好的车手之列。
• The child was pitifully thin.
  那孩子瘦得可怜。
• 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。
• A cat was miaowing pitifully outside the door.
  一只猫在门外可怜地喵喵叫。
• 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。