pathetic是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可怜的, 悲惨的; 不适当的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A most earnest, pressing, and emphatic entreaty, ad-dressed to you in the most pathetic tones of the voice so dear to you, that you well remember.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This old man was a touching and pathetic figure to Levin now, and he longed to say something pleasant to him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought of Madeline's pathetic enthusiasms: her "Provencal pleasaunce" and the limp-leather volumes of poetry which she patted with fond finger-tips; of the tie she had bought for him, and her pride in his hair when he brushed it like the patent-leather heroes in magazine illustrations.
-- Over him came remembrance of Clif's loyalty in the old barren days, and Clif's joy to share with him every pathetic gain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After Sarah wasrestored, we still had to break it to the other eight; and it producedvarious effects upon them of a most pathetic nature.
-- returned the Doctor, in a tone ofmost pathetic grief.
-- She was so pathetic in her sobbing and bewailing, that I felt as if Ihad said I don't know what to hurt her.
-- His bowed head, and her angel face andfilial duty, derived a more pathetic meaning from it than they hadhad before.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His outlook upon time was as a transient flash of the eye now and then: that projection of consciousness into days gone by and to come, which makes the past a synonym for the pathetic and the future a word for circumspection, was foreign to Troy.
-- These somewhat pathetic evidences of a mind crazed with care and love were the subject of discourse in Warren's malt-house when Oak entered from Casterbridge with tidings of the sentence.
-- she said, in pathetic tones.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eloquence is forcible and touch-ing; nor can I hear him, when he relates a pathetic incident or endeavours to move the passions of pity or love, without tears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Don't be cheeky, Jack," remonstrated the landlord, in a melancholy and pathetic way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was so pathetic to hear her saying many things of this kind, with her face turned upward, and her arms stretched out as if she were trying to stop his departing shadow and embrace it, that no one spoke a word until Mr. Bounderby (growing impatient) took the case in hand.
-- They looked at Stephen's worn face, rendered more pathetic by the homely emotions it evinced; and, in the kindness of their nature, they were more sorry than indignant.
-- Utterly heedless of the wear and tear of her clothes and constitution, and adamant to her pathetic sneezes, Mr. Bounderby immediately crammed her into a coach, and bore her off to Stone Lodge.
-- The culprit was moved to a few abject tears by these words and their pathetic tone.
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：
-- And she thought, as she had thought so often, what a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, na- ked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
-- So in the lumber room there were bad Sir Edwin Land-seers and pathetic William Henry Hunt birds' nests: and other Academy stuff, enough to frighten the daughter of an R.A. She determined to look through it one day, and clear it all.
-- Uthwaite down in the valley, with all the steel threads of the railways to Sheffield drawn through it, and the coal-mines and the steel-works sending up smoke and glare from long tubes, and the pathetic little corkscrew spire of the church, that is going to tumble down, still prick-ing the fumes, always affected Connie strangely.
-- Connie thought what a pathetic sort of thing a man was, feeble and small-looking, when he was lying on his belly on the big earth.
-- Connie was so glad that he wasn't taking the pathetic line, she kept him up to as much haughtiness as possible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pursuing the light so fortunately hit upon, and finding the concurrent testimony of the whole of Mrs General's acquaintance to be of the pathetic nature already recorded, Mr Dorrit took the trouble of going down to the county of the county-widower to see Mrs General, in whom he found a lady of a quality superior to his highest expectations.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A bitter sense of wrong and the thought of Jenny Snow helped her to bear it, and, taking the ignominious place, she fixed her eyes on the stove funnel above what now seemed a sea of faces, and stood there, so motionless and white that the girls found it hard to study with that pathetic figure before them.
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