pathetic
音标：
英音/ pəˈθetɪk / 美音/ pəˈθetɪk /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
One of Wales’ best known folk singers claims a “pathetic” attempt was made to lure him into a fake plot to kill the King when he was the Prince of Wales.
威尔士最著名的民谣歌手之一声称，当他还是威尔士亲王时，有人试图引诱他参与谋杀国王的虚假阴谋。
—BBC
“Our efforts to monitor foreign science and technology, inherently an open source exercise, are frankly pathetic,” Mr. Hannas said at a recent congressional hearing.
汉纳斯在最近的一次国会听证会上表示：“坦率地说，我们监控外国科学技术的努力本质上是一种开源活动，是可悲的。”
—Washington Times
Labour reckon Mr Sunak’s decision to cancel his meeting with the Greek prime minister was “pathetic.”
工党认为苏纳克取消与希腊总理会面的决定是“可悲的”。
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
deserving or inciting pity
令人怜悯的，可怜的；无用的，差劲的；感伤的
同义词：
hapless,miserable,misfortunate,piteous,pitiable,pitiful,poor,wretched,pitiable,pitiful,ridiculous,silly
短释义：
These days, when you see the word pathetic, it’s pretty clear that it’s no compliment. This is an insulting word for things that are so bad they bum you out. A sports team losing ten games in a row is pathetic. Someone who constantly lies, even though the lies are obvious, is pathetic. Trying to dunk a basketball and missing by three feet is pathetic. When something is astoundingly lame or awful, people love to say, “Wow. How pathetic.”
一些可悲的事情会激发怜悯和蔑视。如果你的反手很糟糕，你可能不应该参加网球队。
长释义：
These days, when you see the word pathetic, it’s pretty clear that it’s no compliment. This is an insulting word for things that are so bad they bum you out. A sports team losing ten games in a row is pathetic. Someone who constantly lies, even though the lies are obvious, is pathetic. Trying to dunk a basketball and missing by three feet is pathetic. When something is astoundingly lame or awful, people love to say, “Wow. How pathetic.”
如今，当你看到“可悲”这个词时，很明显这不是赞美。这是一个侮辱性的词，指那些糟糕到让你厌烦的事情。一支运动队连续输掉十场比赛是可悲的。一个不断撒谎的人，即使谎言是显而易见的，也是可悲的。试图扣篮却差了三英尺，这是可悲的。当某件事极其蹩脚或糟糕时，人们喜欢说：“哇，真可怜。”
文学例句：
A pathetic mewling sound rises in my throat.
我的喉咙里发出可怜兮兮的呜咽声。
—The Sea in Winter by Christine Day
All that came out was a strangled and pathetic sound, like the spit had curdled in her mouth.
发出的只是一种窒息而可怜的声音，就像口水在她嘴里凝固了一样。
—Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
“It’s very pretty,” I say in my best Urdu, although I know my accent sounds pathetic.
“它非常漂亮，”我用我最好的乌尔都语说道，尽管我知道我的口音听起来很可怜。
—Amina’s Song by Hena Khan
词源：
pathetic (adj.)1590s, “affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring” (now obsolete in this broad sense), from French pathétique “moving, stirring, affecting” (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos “subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion,” from pathetos “liable to suffer,” verbal adjective of pathein “to suffer” (from PIE root *kwent(h)- “to suffer”).
The specific meaning “arousing pity, sorrow, or grief” or other tender feelings is from 1737. The colloquial sense of “so miserable as to be ridiculous” is attested by 1937. Related: Pathetical (1570s); pathetically. The pathetic fallacy (1856, first used by Ruskin) is the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
pathetic (adj.)1590年代，“影响情感或情感，感动，激动”（现在广义上已废弃），源自法语pathétique“感动，激动，影响”（16c.），源自后期拉丁语patheticus，源自希腊语pathetikos “受感觉影响、敏感、有情感能力”，源自pathetos“易于受苦”，pathein 的动词形容词“受苦”（来自 PIE 词根 *kwent(h)-“受苦”）。具体含义是“引起怜悯、悲伤或悲伤”或其他温柔的感情，是从 1737 年开始的。“如此悲惨到可笑”的口语含义是在 1937 年得到证实的。相关：可怜（1570 年代）；可悲的是。可悲的谬误（1856 年，拉斯金首次使用）是将人类品质归因于无生命的物体。相关条目及更多
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