pitiable

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpitiablepit‧i‧a‧ble /ˈpɪtiəbəl/ adjective formal SYMPATHIZEmaking you feel pity the pitiable victims of war —pitiably adverbExamples from the Corpuspitiable• Sylvie was no longer the withdrawn, slightly pitiable figure she had last seen in New York.• And none of the pitiable passengers on flight 592 had any idea of it.• pitiable victims of war• Far from being pitiable victims, the Hollywood 10 and their followers have the blood of millions on their hands.• They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses, instead of forming themselves into a counter attack.

单词	pitiable
释义	pitiable From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpitiablepit‧i‧a‧ble /ˈpɪtiəbəl/ adjective formal SYMPATHIZEmaking you feel pity the pitiable victims of war —pitiably adverbExamples from the Corpuspitiable• Sylvie was no longer the withdrawn, slightly pitiable figure she had last seen in New York.• And none of the pitiable passengers on flight 592 had any idea of it.• pitiable victims of war• Far from being pitiable victims, the Hollywood 10 and their followers have the blood of millions on their hands.• They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses, instead of forming themselves into a counter attack.
随便看	somebody/something is to blame (for something) somebody/something makes my flesh creep somebody/something of note somebody/something rocks somebody/something rules somebody/something/it won’t be long somebody/something’s former self somebody’s (main) squeeze somebody’s (political/religious etc) affiliation somebody’s achievement in (doing) something somebody’s affections somebody’s aim is true somebody’s alma mater somebody’s alter ego somebody’s ambitions of doing something somebody’s answer to something somebody’s bark is worse than their bite somebody’s betrothed somebody’s birth date somebody’s blood freezes somebody’s blood is up somebody’s bête noire somebody’s card is marked somebody’s cast of mind somebody’s chances