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单词 pitifully
释义
pitifully
adverb
uk
/ˈpɪt.i.fəl.i/us
/ˈpɪt̬.i.fəl.i/
in a way that makespeoplefeelsympathy:
可怜地
Hislimbsare pitifullythin, theboneswithin asfragileasglass.他的四肢瘦得可怜，里面的骨头像玻璃一样易碎。
She hadsurvivedso much andyetdiedso pitifully.她经历了那么多，却死得那么可怜。
in a way that is verybad,unsatisfactory, or not enough:
可怜地；差劲地；欠缺地；无法令人满意地
Theworkisexhaustingand pitifullypaid.工作很累，报酬菲薄。
Los Angeles is the mostcongestedcityinAmerica, with a pitifullysmallnumberofurbanparks.洛杉矶是美国最拥堵的城市，城市公园数量少得可怜。
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  • The pitifullythindogdesperatelyneededhelp.
  • He was so pitifullyhandicappedit waspainfultolookat him.
  • Thequalityofeducationhasdeterioratedpitifully.
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Useless and futile
(Definition ofpitifullyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpitifully

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At that point, in late 1942, there werepitifullyfew psychiatrists on active duty, and they were already swamped with patients.
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The child worker stoodpitifullyat the centre of classical accounts of the first industrial revolution.
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In view of the existing and probable future needs this part has beenpitifullysmall.
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Virtually nothing had been done to assure communications while transport facilities werepitifullyinadequate, with hospital bases primitive and remote from the front.
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Those trying to describe the effects of art or music in words would grasp at metaphors which struck the modern man as beingpitifullyunscientific and reeking of subjectivity.
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Nothing was done that could possibly injure this vicar in his worldly affairs, in his office, or hispitifullysmall stipend.
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In those circumstances, are not 10 rubber boats and three helicopterspitifullyinadequate in comparison with the actual need?
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If one takes such an industry as coal, has re-organisation, has the vast expenditure on mechanisation as yet produced anything butpitifullyinadequate results?
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In most cases, the fines currently handed down by the courts arepitifullylow, which prevents the operation of an effective system of deterrence.
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Lack of cash affects the prize money, which is oftenpitifullysmall.
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They are apitifullymiscellaneous set of provisions in many respects.
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After the autumn statement, growth will still bepitifullylow during the coming year.
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To do so would bepitifullyshort-sighted and ethically reprehensible.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We have lived to bury many tyrants, great and small; and the small usually end morepitifullyand more rapidly than the great.
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One of the most frequent criticisms of our legal system is that people are being finedpitifullysmall amounts.
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