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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he began in a pathetic voice.
-- Oh, don't put on that pathetic expression, and don't put your hand on your heart!Have you anything to say to me?
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：
-- His look nev-er changed throughout the whole of the scene, nor did a muscle move in his rigid countenance, even at the wildest or the most pathetic parts of the lamentation.
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：
-- The eloquent phrases I had arranged, pathetic or indignant, seemed out of place on the Avenue de Clichy.
-- The saddest thing about them was that they were grotesque, and the more pathetic they were, the more you wanted to laugh.
-- When Blanche saw that, notwithstanding his moments of passion, Strickland remained aloof, she must have been filled with dismay, and even in those moments I surmise that she realised that to him she was not an individual, but an instrument of pleasure; he was a stranger still, and she tried to bind him to herself with pathetic arts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he told his secret over again, with the addition of being pathetic on the subject of Miss Wackles, who, he gave Mr Quilp to understand, was the occasion of any slight incoherency he might observe in his speech at that moment, which was attributable solely to the strength of his affection and not to rosy wine or other fermented liquor.
-- It now only remained that Mr Slum's compositions should be judiciously distributed; that the pathetic effusions should find their way to all private houses and tradespeople; and that the parody commencing 'If I know'd a donkey,' should be confined to the taverns, and circulated only among the lawyers' clerks and choice spirits of the place.
-- Melting from this stern and obdurate, into the tender and pathetic mood, Mr Swiveller groaned a little, walked wildly up and down, and even made a show of tearing his hair, which, however, he thought better of, and wrenched the tassel from his nightcap instead.
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 I don't feel a bit like a humble and pathetic ugly duckling.
-- The connecting chains were grinding and squeaking as the tension varied, the mare pawed and struck away mechanically now, her terror fulfilled in her, for now the man encompassed her; her paws were blind and pathetic as she beat the air, the man closed round her, and brought her down, almost as if she were part of his own physique.
-- There was something strangely pathetic and tender in her moving, unconscious finger-tips, that were agitated and hurt, really.
-- "I'm frightened," cried Ursula, in a pathetic voice, watching the group of sturdy short cattle, that stood with their knees planted, and watched with their dark, wicked eyes, through the matted fringe of their hair.
-- They were turned together, half covering each other in pathetic shyness and fear.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do, Meg!I'll be ever so good,' pleaded Amy, looking as pathetic as she could.
-- Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always be-fore her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and to sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.
-- Jo tried to look pathetic but must have failed, for Mr. Laurence began to laugh, and she knew the day was won.
-- It is the shadow of pain which touches the young face with such pathetic patience, but Beth seldom complains and always speaks hopefully of 'being better soon'.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken.
-- She loved to modulate her voice after the conventional manner of the distressed heroine, and repeat such pathetic fragments as appealed most to her sympathies.
-- She saw herself in a score of pathetic situations in which she assumed a tremulous voice and suffering manner.
-- He was really moved by her excellent representation and the general appearance of the pathetic little figure as it swayed and finally fainted to the floor.
-- "Remember, Mrs. Morgan," he added, ignoring the gleam, but modifying his manner, "that you're detailing a pathetic story.
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