pitifully

1. ADJ-GRADED 令人怜悯的；使人同情的；可怜的
   Someone or something that is pitiful is so sad, weak, or small that you feel pity for them.
   1. He sounded both pitiful and eager to get what he wanted...
      他听起来既可怜兮兮的，又对想要的东西充满渴望。
   2. It was the most pitiful sight I had ever seen.
      这是我看到过的最令人同情的一幕。
2. ADJ-GRADED 匮乏的；极度欠缺的
   If you describe something as pitiful, you mean that it is completely inadequate.
   1. The choice is pitiful and the quality of some of the products is very low...
      选择余地极小，而且其中一些产品的质量很差。
   2. The farmers pay pitiful wages, often in the form of food and clothes.
      农场主支付的报酬少得可怜，还经常是以食物和衣服的形式。
3. ADJ-GRADED 可鄙的；不值得考虑的
   If you describe something as pitiful, you mean that it does not deserve respect or consideration.
   1. This argument seems to show a pitiful lack of confidence in the capabilities of our juries.
      这一论点似乎表现出对我们陪审团能力的极度不信任，而这种不信任是可悲的。

1. I never realized that he was so pitifully ( or pathetically) ignorant.
   他竟然无知到这样可怜的程度！
2. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
   可惜，大多数人的爱情，都是负重的。
3. When it saw the rock being tossed about pitifully, it said," Only a weak person will make a detour. A person who is strong will only go ahead, and nothing will stop him!"
   看到岩石被可怜的冲来冲去，河说：“只有弱者才会绕道，强者只会勇往直前，任何东西都无法阻挡它！”
4. I shook my head from side to side, pitifully.
   我可怜兮兮地不住摇头。
5. Those who huddled pitifully together on the left were the old, the infirm, the ill, the very young.
   那些可怜地挤在左边的人都是些老、弱、病、幼者。
6. But also pitifully, my father did not realize his dream.
   然而同样遗憾的是，父亲没能实现他的梦想，因为他缺乏资金。
7. So what absolutely makes you nuts is having to take orders from someone who's not only less qualified than yourself, but also pitifully less suited to the position.
   你最不能忍受的就是让你听命于那些才干不如你且并不适合这个位置的人。
8. Land is in pitifully short supply and government policy on land sales has mostly kept it that way.
   土地供应严重短缺，而政府的卖地政策很大程度上在维持现状。
9. Hung-chien thought to himself that those policemen on the boat were all from the French countryside and were leaving home for the first time, and everyone of them was pitifully poor.
   鸿渐想同船那批法国警察，都是乡下人初出门，没一个不寒窘可怜。
10. But the traing is pitifully short.
    但是所有的训练都太短了。
11. If I try to cast my mind back, I find the answer is no. I think the amount of work that gets done is a fairly fixed quantity, and in most managerial jobs is pitifully low.
    当我回想从前的时候，我发现答案是否定的。我认为，我们要完成的工作量基本上是固定的，而在绝大多数管理类工作中，工作量少得可怜。
12. The child was pitifully thin.
    那孩子瘦得可怜。
13. Yet these days working mothers are sometimes called Rabenm ü tter or raven-mothers, reflecting the notion that this species abandons chicks pitifully early in life.
    然而，如今那些有工作的母亲却往往被称为“乌鸦妈妈”。此称谓折射出了这样一种认识：这些妈妈们在孩子还很小的时候，就狠心不管他们了。
14. The children were pitifully thin and neglected.
    孩子们又瘦弱又没人照顾，真让人可怜。
15. He would sit pitifully outside stage doors in his Rolls-Royce for hours waiting for other actresses.
    为了其他女演员，他会坐在他的劳斯莱斯（Rolls-Royce）车内，在演出场所门外可怜地等上数小时之久。
16. He was a pitifully weak and frail old man.
    他是一位瘦骨嶙峋的带病老人。
17. A cat was miaowing pitifully outside the door.
    一只猫在门外可怜地喵喵叫。
18. She nodded her head and smiled, and he felt, somehow, that her smile was tolerant, pitifully tolerant.
    她点头微笑了，他不知怎么觉得那微笑透着宽容，一种出于怜悯的宽容。
19. Whirling about as best he could with one good leg, the huge orc stared down at a pitifully tiny figure with batlike ears and a vast set of sharp teeth set in a mad grin.
    耐克鲁斯尽全力用完整的那条腿撑住身体，目光所及只见一个长着蝙蝠尖耳，满口利齿的小个子。
20. At least she wouldn't have died so pitifully, ignored by her neighbors because they thought she was a drunk, when in fact, she was looking for help.
    至少她不会这么可怜地死去，她的邻居们把她忽略了，因为他们以为她是一个醉汉，而事实上，她是在寻求帮助。
21. Humiliated all the more for having tried so pitifully hard.
    艰辛努力越多，受的羞辱就更多。
22. In this year, he overcame difficulty; though pitifully lose the title, his name is now among those of the best drivers.
    今年，他克服了许多艰难，尽管充满遗憾地失去了冠军，他的名字已经在最好的车手之列。
23. She only gave a pitifully small amount of money to the charity.
    她仅仅向慈善院捐了少得可怜的一笔钱。
24. The black guy pitifully yells and crookedly plants on the ground.
    黑色盔甲者惨叫一声，歪歪斜斜地栽倒在地上。
25. South Korea, although a bigger trading partner than most of the pitifully small economies with which the US has signed bilateral pacts, still buys only 3 per cent of US goods exports.
    尽管相对于美国与之签订双边协议的多数不值一提的小国，韩国的规模较大，但也只有3%的美国货物出口流向韩国。
26. The older dog was staring up at the sky, whining pitifully.
    那大点儿的狗朝天张望，凄然哀叫。
27. Possibly because of will see an old person, I feel pitifully.
    可能会因为看见一个老人，而感觉可怜。
28. Together with the pitifully few survivors of Nazi-occupied Europe, they became the core population of the new state of Israel.
    加上纳粹占领的欧洲地区少得可怜的犹太幸存者，他们一起形成了建立以色列国的核心人口。
29. But some banks have continued to offer these products, which remain popular because they offer an attractive return in an environment with pitifully low savings rates and languishing equity and property markets.
    但一些银行继续提供这些产品；在储蓄利率低得可怜、股市和房地产市场未见起色的环境中，这些产品因提供有吸引力的回报而仍然抢手。

adv

1. to a pitiful degree
   1. wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women