I know it sounds pathetic now, but at the time I was frightened.
我知道现在听起来挺窝囊,不过当时我很害怕。
Vic made a pathetic attempt to apologise.
维克很勉强地道了歉。
2SYMPATHIZEmaking you feel pity or sympathy 招人怜悯的,可怜的
The child looked a pathetic sight.
那个孩子看上去很可怜。
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She whimpered pathetically.
她可怜地啜泣了起来。
Examples from the Corpus
pathetic• Even worse, it sounded pathetic.• The arrogance of some of the has-beens in the Athletico squad is pathetic.• She's clever, but as a teacher she's pathetic.• The movie's special effects are absolutely pathetic.• We found a small dog sitting outside the back door, looking pathetic.• There is something pathetic about a 40-year-old man who still has his mother do his laundry.• I just felt pathetic, ashamed, embarrassed and ugly.• a patheticattempt at seduction• I can't believe we wasted our money on that patheticcomedian last night.• Yang looked at me with a patheticexpression on his face.• patheticimages of half-starved children• But each day the silence worked on me-and my pathetic longing.• It was really pathetic, meeting him like that in the flowershop.• And she found it interesting that Sandra would project her own patheticpursuit of Matthew on to some one else.• How pathetic they had seemed at the time, how weak, their eyes blazing with fear, like trapped animals.
Originpathetic
(1500-1600)Frenchpathétique, from Latin, from Greek, from paschein“to suffer”