| 释义 |
sob storyˈsob ˌstory noun [countable] informal   - But I wouldn't consider myself to be a sob story.
- In fact, he was brutally cynical, ruthlessly efficient and hardened to every sob story under the sun.
to try to make someone feel sorry for you► play on somebody's sympathy also play for sympathy to unfairly try to make someone feel sorry for you, in order to gain an advantage for yourself: · She had lain in her bed for years, feigning illness and playing on the sympathy of her daughters.· He decided it was best to play for sympathy on this occasion, because she might know if he tried to lie. ► hard-luck story/sob story a story or explanation, especially one that is untrue, told by someone in order to make other people feel sorry for them: · A beggar approached me with some hard-luck story about an accident.give somebody a hard-luck/sob story: · The defendant gave us some sob story about a sick child. a story, especially one that is not true, that someone tells you in order to make you feel sorry for them:  a sob story about how she lost all her money |