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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A word ofencouragement and explanation, of pity for my childish ignorance,of welcome home, or reassurance to me that it was home, mighthave made me dutiful to him in my heart henceforth, instead of inmy hypocritical outside, and might have made me respect insteadof hate him.
-- Now it was Mr. Wickfield, now Agnes, now the excellence of Mr.Wickfield, now my admiration of Agnes; now the extent of Mr.Wickfield's business and resources, now our domestic life afterdinner; now, the wine that Mr. Wickfield took, the reason why hetook it, and the pity that it was he took so much; now one thing,now another, then everything at once; and all the time, withoutappearing to speak very often, or to do anything but sometimesencourage them a little, for fear they should be overcome by theirhumility and the honour of my company, I found myselfperpetually letting out something or other that I had no business tolet out, and seeing the effect of it in the twinkling of Uriah's dintednostrils.
-- As she still stood looking fixedly at me, atwitching or throbbing, from which I could not dissociate the ideaof pain, came into that cruel mark; and lifted up the corner of herlip as if with scorn, or with a pity that despised its object.
-- You have laid a foundation that any edifice may be raisedupon; and is it not a pity that you should devote the spring-time ofyour life to such a poor pursuit as I can offer?'
-- Still, aswe drive along in an open carriage, this fairy marriage is realenough to fill me with a sort of wondering pity for the unfortunatepeople who have no part in it, but are sweeping out the shops, andgoing to their daily occupations.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a pity it is that Mr. Weston ever thought of her!'
-- 'And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer for, depend upon it a lucky guess is never merely luck.
-- Her situation was altogether the subject of hours of grati-tude to Mrs. Weston, and of moments only of regret; and 20 Emmaher satisfaction -her more than satisfaction her cheerful enjoyment, was so just and so apparent, that Emma, well as she knew her father, was sometimes taken by surprize at his being still able to pity 'poor Miss Taylor,' when they left her at Randalls in the centre of every domestic comfort, or saw her go away in the evening attended by her pleasant hus-band to a carriage of her own.
-- There was no recovering Miss Taylor nor much likeli-hood of ceasing to pity her; but a few weeks brought some alleviation to Mr. Woodhouse.
-- It is a pity that they were ever got over.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I haven't a sweetheart at all and I never had one, and I thought that, as times go with women, it was such a pity to send you away thinking that I had several."
-- His first feeling now was one of pity for the untimely fate of these gentle ewes and their unborn lambs.
-- "'Tis a pity that playing the flute should make a man look such a scarecrow," observed Mr. Mark Clark, with additional criticism of Gabriel's countenance, the latter person jerking out, with the ghastly grimace required by the instrument, the chorus of "Dame Durden:" 'Twas Moll' and Bet', and Doll' and Kate',And Dor'-othy Drag'-gle Tail'.
-- "Yes, 'tis a pity she's so headstrong," the first would say.
-- She did not know whether to pity him for disappointed love of her, or to be angry with him for having got over it his tone being ambiguous.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Michonneau, that elderly young lady, screened her weak eyes from the daylight by a soiled green silk shade with a rim of brass, an object fit to scare away the Angel of Pity himself.
-- There was not one of them but would have passed a blind man begging in the street, not one that felt moved to pity by a tale of misfortune, not one who did not see in death the solution of the all-absorbing problem of misery which left them cold to the most terrible anguish in others.
-- He excited feelings of repulsion in some, and of pity in others.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing de-gree.
-- 162 FrankensteinThere was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies?
-- But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form.
-- You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity 174 Frankensteinman more than he pities me?
-- I wept bitterly, and clasping my hands in agony, I exclaimed, 'Oh!Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye real-ly pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in dark-ness.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a pity legs could not be shown, she thought, pulling up her petticoats andregretfully viewing them, plump and neat under pantalets.
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