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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Upon my honor, Ayrton," the Major could not help saying, "it is a pity that you hadn't had the shoeing of all our beasts when we forded the Wimerra."
-- No pity was to be expected at his hands.
-- "Pages of the Bible!If that is the use they make of the Holy Book, I pity the missionaries!It will be rather difficult to establish a Maori library."
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pity you, Miss Eliza, for this discovery of your favourite's guilt; but really, considering his descent, one could not ex-pect much better.'
-- But I pity her, because she must feel that she has been acting wrong, and because I am very sure that anxiety for her brother is the cause of it.
-- But his pride, his abominable pride his shame-less avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned Mr. Wickham, his cruelty towards whom he had not attempted to deny, soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his attachment had for a moment excit-ed.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Prayed to God again, but was light-headed; and when I was not, I was so ignorant that I knew not what to say; only I lay and cried, 'Lord, look upon me!Lord, pity me!Lord, have mercy upon me!'
-- It would make the reader pity me, or rather laugh at me, to tell how many awkward ways I took to raise this paste; what odd, misshapen, ugly things I made; how many of them fell in and how many fell out, the clay not being stiff enough to bear its own weight; how many cracked by the over-violent heat of the sun, being set out too hastily; and how many fell in pieces with only removing, as well before as after they were dried; and, in a word, how, after having laboured hard to find the clay - to dig it, to temper it, to bring it home, and work it - I could not make above two large earthen ugly things (I cannot call them jars) in about two months' labour.
-- In the next place, it occurred to me that although the usage they gave one another was thus brutish and inhuman, yet it was really nothing to me: these people had done me no injury: that if they attempted, or I saw it necessary, for my immediate preservation, to fall upon them, something might be said for it: but that I was yet out of their power, and they re-ally had no knowledge of me, and consequently no design upon me; and therefore it could not be just for me to fall upon them; that this would justify the conduct of the Span-iards in all their barbarities practised in America, where they destroyed millions of these people; who, however they were idolators and barbarians, and had several bloody and barbarous rites in their customs, such as sacrificing human bodies to their idols, were yet, as to the Spaniards, very in-nocent people; and that the rooting them out of the country is spoken of with the utmost abhorrence and detestation by even the Spaniards themselves at this time, and by all other Christian nations of Europe, as a mere butchery, a bloody and unnatural piece of cruelty, unjustifiable either to God or man; and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reck-oned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or of Christian compassion; as if the kingdom of Spain were particularly eminent for the produce of a race of men who were without principles of tenderness, or the common bow-els of pity to the miserable, which is reckoned to be a mark of generous temper in the mind.
-- As all these were but conjectures at best, so, in the con-dition I was in, I could do no more than look on upon the misery of the poor men, and pity them; which had still this good effect upon my side, that it gave me more and more cause to give thanks to God, who had so happily and com-fortably provided for me in my desolate condition; and that of two ships' companies, who were now cast away upon this part of the world, not one life should be spared but mine.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 4"What a pity it is, Elinor," said Marianne, "that Edward should have no taste for drawing."
-- "So do I. He is such a charming man, that it is quite a pity he should be so grave and so dull.
-- Poor souls!I always pity them when they do; they seem to take it so much to heart."
-- The pity of such a woman as Lady Middleton!Oh, what would HE say to that!"
-- It would have been such a great pity to have went away before your brother and sister came.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even then she would have had no conception of the relative value of the thing; her one thought would, undoubtedly, have concerned the pity of having so much power and the inability to use it.
-- What a pity they should ever want my aid."
-- "I haven't any pity for a man who would be such a chump as that."
-- He handed over a dime with an upwelling feeling of pity in his heart.
-- It took all the hope and uncritical good-nature of the audience to keep from manifesting pity by that unrest which is the agony of failure.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Take pity on a poor boy who is being chased by two Assass--" He did not finish, for two powerful hands grasped him by the neck and the same two horrible voices growled threateningly: "Now we have you!"
-- Filled with pity at the sight of the poor little fellow being knocked helplessly about by the wind, she clapped her hands sharply together three times.
-- The Fairy showed no pity toward him, as she was trying to teach him a good lesson, so that he would stop telling lies, the worst habit any boy may acquire.
-- He had said that the real poor in this world, deserving of our pity and help, were only those who, either through age or sickness, had lost the means of earning their bread with their own hands.
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