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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, the nausea of standing by the doctor, trying not to vomit when his bright knife cut into mortifying flesh!Andoh, the horror of hearing the screams from the operating ward where amputations were going on!And the sick, helplesssense of pity at the sight of tense, white faces of mangled men waiting for the doctor to get to them, men whose earswere filled with screams, men waiting for the dreadful words: "I'm sorry, my boy, but that hand will have to come off.
-- But there were so many old men and youngboys, and the sight of them made her heart contract with pity and with fear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
-- and with a smile of forgiving pity on her walnut-shell countenance for the weaknesses of the rest.
-- "It's a pity now, Joe," said I, "that you did not get on a little more, when we had our lessons here; isn't it?"
-- It were always a pity as I was so awful dull; but it's no more of a pity now, than it was--this day twelvemonth--don't you see?"
-- You had not your little wits sharpened by their intriguing against you, suppressed and defenceless, under the mask of sympathy and pity and what not that is soft and soothing.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when the son looked at the horse, he thought it a great pity to put the leathern sad-dle upon it.
-- Then the queen took pity on the little fish, and threw it back again into the river; and before it swam away it lifted its head out of the water and said, 'I know what your wish is, and it shall be fulfilled, in return for your kindness to me you will soon have a daughter.'
-- If I did not take pity on you and save you, you would be lost.'
-- On the way he passed by a mill, and there sat a raven with bro-ken wings, and out of pity he took him and wrapped him in the skin.
-- So she took pity on them, and made use of the butter to grease them all, so that the wheels might not hurt them so much.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I spoken Dutch tolerably well; I told him who we were, and begged him, in consideration of our being Christians and Protestants, of neighbouring countries in strict alliance, that he would move the captains to take some pity on us.
-- The gentleman to whom I addressed my discourse, be-cause (as I have already observed) he spoke the language of Balnibarbi, said to me, with a sort of a smile which usually arises from pity to the ignorant, 'that he was glad of any oc-casion to keep me among them, and desired my permission to explain to the company what I had spoke.'
-- I told him, 'that a first or chief minister of state, who was the person I intended to describe, was the creature wholly exempt from joy and grief, love and hatred, pity and anger; at least, makes use of no other passions, but a violent de-sire of wealth, power, and titles; that he applies his words to all uses, except to the indication of his mind; that he never tells a truth but with an intent that you should take it for a lie; nor a lie, but with a design that you should take it for a truth; that those he speaks worst of behind their backs are in the surest way of preferment; and whenever he begins to praise you to others, or to yourself, you are from that day 324 Gulliver's Travelsforlorn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's a pity you don't have a bespeak, being so particular.
-- Yet there was a remarkable gentleness and childishness about these people, a special inaptitude for any kind of sharp practice, and an untiring readiness to help and pity one another, deserving often of as much respect, and always of as much generous construction, as the every-day virtues of any class of people in the world.
-- I ha' lived under 't so long, for that I ha' had'n the pity and comforting words o' th' best lass living or dead.
-- No word of a new marriage had ever passed between them; but Rachael had taken great pity on him years ago, and to her alone he had opened his closed heart all this time, on the subject of his p. 63miseries; and he knew very well that if he were free to ask her, she would take him.
-- 'I wish with all my heart, sir,' said Mrs. Sparsit, in a highly superior manner; somehow she seemed, in a moment, to have established a right to pity him ever afterwards; 'that you may be in all respects very happy.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I didn't pity him.
-- These wretched and miserable huts excited in us such pity that we felt half disposed to leave alms at every door.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's a frightful pity we can't go straight off!'
-- To find a man who dared do it, without shame or sin or final misgiving!If he had been ashamed afterwards, and made one feel ashamed, how awful!What a pity most men are so doggy, a bit shameful, like Clifford!Like Mi-chaelis even!Both sensually a bit doggy and humiliating.
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