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：
-- "Yes," replied Harry Grant, "a paradise to these poor, shipwrecked fellows that Heaven had pity on, but I am sorry that Maria Theresa was not an extensive and fertile island, with a river instead of a stream, and a port instead of a tiny bay exposed to the open sea."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a pity we did not get the number!'
-- What a pity that I should have missed him!'
-- The man was a danger to the community, an unmitigated scoundrel for whom there was neither pity nor excuse.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave her the eight francs and asked her to take care of the money because I could get no more; and then I kissed her and said that she was not to suppose I kissed her with any evil motives or be-cause I was in love with her, for that I did so solely out of pity for her, and because from the first I had not accounted her as guilty so much as unfortunate.
-- Yes, that's true!I pity him, to tell the truth, but I dare not say so, because everybody would laugh at me but I do pity him!And who are the really clev-er men, after all?
-- Of course I was to blame, and even now that I have time to look back at it calmly, I pity the poor old thing no less.
-- He puts his hand on his heart, and he is delighted!I never said he was a man without heart, but he is a rascal that's the pity of it.
-- 'It is a pity you have taken too much wine, Lebedeff I want to ask you something ... but芒聙娄' 'All right!all right!I am not drunk,' replied the clerk, preparing to listen.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell her to bid the matrons gather at the temple of Minerva in the acropolis; let her then take her key and open the doors of the sacred building; there, upon the knees of Minerva, let her lay the largest, fairest robe she has in her house the one she sets most store by; let her, moreover, promise to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad, in the temple of the goddess, if she will take pity on the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans, and keep the son of Tydeus from falling on the goodly city of Ilius; for he fights with fury and fills men's souls with panic.
-- Get the matrons together, and go with offerings to the temple of Minerva driver of the spoil; there, upon the knees of Minerva, lay the largest and fairest robe you have in your house the one you set most store by; promise, moreover, to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have nev-er yet felt the goad, in the temple of the goddess if she will take pity on the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans, and keep the son of Tydeus from off the goodly city of Ilius, for he fights with fury, and fills men's souls with panic.
-- Do this, and we will sacrifice twelve heif-ers that have never yet known the goad, in your temple, if you will have pity upon the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans.'
-- Have you no pity upon the Tro- jans, and would you incline the scales of victory in favour of the Danaans?
-- Juno when she saw them had pity upon them, and at once said to Minerva, 'Alas, child of aegis-bearing Jove, shall you and I take no more thought for the dying Danaans, though it be the last time we ever do so?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- UT the islanders, seeing that I was really adrift, took pity Bon me.
-- It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When Baloo hurt my head,' said Mowgli (he was still on his back), 'I went away, and the gray apes came down from the trees and had pity on me.
-- 'The pity of the Monkey People!'
-- 'Tis a pity to send that young jungle-cock to molt in the plains.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She smiled, as if in pity at her own momentary forgetfulness, discovering by the act a row of teeth that would have shamed the purest ivory; when, replacing the veil, she bowed her face, and rode in silence, like one whose thoughts were abstracted from the scene around her.
-- Nay, throw aside that frown, Heyward, and in pity to my longing ears, suffer him to journey in our train.
-- The high-spirited Duncan felt a powerful impulse of admiration and pity toward the former, though no op-portunity could offer to exhibit his generous emotions.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't imagine a more wonderful exercise of it than to move the souls of men to pity or terror."
-- It's generally a gesture to arouse pity or terror in their lover."
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