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单词 to feel sorry for oneself
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to feel sorry for oneself
b. sorry for oneself: in a state of self-pity; depressed, miserable; in a poor condition. Now chiefly in to feel sorry for oneself.
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the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > full of self-pity
self-pityinga1628
sorry for oneself1767
self-pitiful1865
1767 W. Kenrick Widow'd Wife iii. iii. 50 Though I am horribly disappointed in my own expectations, I declare I am less sorry for myself than for him.
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. iv. 55 The house was old and dilapidated, and looked sorry for itself.
1883 Temple Bar Oct. 268 ‘I do not see why you should be sorry for yourself,’ she answered... ‘Not many men have such a wife as I am to you.’
1918 Hist. Outlook Dec. 473/2 These wounded or maimed boys are not on the whole, I think, so very sorry for themselves.
1973 R. M. Brown Rubyfruit Jungle 148 I'm not sittin' here on this Goddamn subway train feeling sorry for myself.
1981 ‘J. Gash’ Vatican Rip (1983) xix. 156 I've never seen anybody look so sorry for himself, the pillock.
2006 P. Williams Rise & Fall Yummy Mummy ix. 83 There's no point feeling sorry for myself all the time, it doesn't get me anywhere.
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