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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he too was tortured with shame, and ultimate dislike, and with acute pity for her, because he did not want to meet her eyes, he did not want to receive her flare of recognition.
-- With unbroken will, he had stood by this position with regard to her, he had substituted pity for all his hostility, pity had been his shield and his safeguard, and his infallible weapon.
-- But before the armour of his pity really broke, he would die, as an insect when its shell is cracked.
-- This immediately roused a poignant pity and allegiance in Gerald's heart, always shadowed by contempt and by unadmitted enmity.
-- A certain pity and grief and tenderness for his father overcame him, in spite of the deeper, more sullen hostility.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here is the consequence of being buried alive: she has thrown herself away upon that boor from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed!A sad pity I must beware how I cause her to regret her choice.'
-- I did not know whether to resent this language or pursue my explanation; but he seemed so powerfully affected that I took pity and proceeded with my dreams; affirming I had never heard the appellation of 'Catherine Linton' before, but reading it often over produced an impression which personified itself when I had no longer my imagination under control.
-- That sounds ill natured: but she was so proud it became really impossible to pity her distresses, till she should be chastened into more humility.
-- It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink,' observed Heathcliff, muttering an echo of curses back when the door was shut.
-- No, to be sure not: I should only pity him hate him, perhaps, if he were ugly, and a clown.
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