pity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (觉得) 可怜， 惋惜n. 憾事， 怜悯，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his former self, 'Poor boy.'
-- Imean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had drawn close to him, in her dread of the scene, and in her pity for the prisoner.
-- This had been so very noticeable, so very powerfully and naturally shown, that starers who had had no pity for him were touched by her; and the whisper went about, 'Who are they?'
-- 'It is a pity you have not, sir.'
-- 'Is it not forgive me; I have begun the question on my lips a pity to live no better life?'
-- 'And she showed me her children,' said the Doctor of Beauvais, 'and they had heard of me, and had been taught to pity me.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have pity Thou, who all men's pains dost see.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not understand how his pity for her exasperated her.
-- Yes, as to your question, there is no change, but it's a pity you've been away so long."
-- Chapter 15 At the end of the evening Kitty told her mother of her conversation with Levin, and in spite of all the pity she felt for Levin, she was glad at the thought that she had received an OFFER.
-- "Lord, have pity on us; Lord, have pity on us; Lord, have pity on us!"
-- "It's a pity Vassya's asleep."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I pity you, then, Mr. Fogg, for solitude is a sad thing, with no heart to which to confide your griefs.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clif was the clown of the fraternity house, he was given to raucous laughter, he clogged and sang meaningless songs, he even practiced on the cornet, yet he was somehow a good fellow and solid, and Martin, in his detestation of Ira Hinkley, his fear of Angus Duer, his pity for Fatty Pfaff, his distaste for the amiable dullness of Irving Watters, turned to the roaring Clif as to something living and experimenting.
-- Had it been possible, he might have understood Hesselink's success then, have noted that gravity and charm, that pity and sureness, which made people entrust their lives to him.
-- You must pity, oh, so much the generation after generation yet to come that you can refuse to let yourself indulge in pity for the men you will see dying.
-- "Let nothing, neither beautiful pity nor fear of your own death, keep you from making this plague experiment complete.
-- The more they called him the giver of life, the more he felt himself disgraced and a traitor; and as he looked at Stokes he saw in his regard a pity worse than condemnation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here I, her own father, here I took thirty copecks of that money for a drink!And I am drinking it!And I have already drunk it!Come, who will have pity on a man like me, eh?
-- Yes!there's nothing to pity me for!I ought to be crucified, crucified on a cross, not pitied!Crucify me, oh judge, crucify me but pity me!And then I will go of myself to be crucified, for it's not merry-making I seek but tears and tribulation!芒聙娄 Do you suppose, you that sell, that this pint of yours has been sweet to me?
-- It was tribulation I sought at the bottom of it, tears and tribu-lation, and have found it, and I have tasted it; but He will pity us Who has had pity on all men, Who has understood all men and all things, He is the One, He too is the judge.
-- Where is the daughter who had pity upon the filthy drunkard, her earth-ly father, undismayed by his beastliness?'
-- 'Some foolishness, some trifling carelessness, and I may betray myself!Hm 芒聙娄 it's a pity there's no air here,' he add-ed, 'it's stifling芒聙娄.
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