pathos
英 ['pe?θ?s]
美['peθɑs]
- n. 悲悵；痛苦；同情；哀婉動人的詞句
IELTSGRE低頻詞擴展詞匯
中文詞源
pathos 痛苦，同情，感染力
來自希臘語pathos,忍受，疾病，來自PIE*pei,傷害，詞源同pathetic,patient.引申詞義痛苦，同情，感染力等。
英文詞源
- pathos
- pathos: see sympathy
- pathos (n.)
- "quality that arouses pity or sorrow," 1660s, from Greek pathos "suffering, feeling, emotion, calamity," literally "what befalls one," related to paskhein "to suffer," and penthos "grief, sorrow;" from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer, endure" (cognates: Old Irish cessaim "I suffer," Lithuanian ken?iu "to suffer," pakanta "patience").
雙語例句
- 1. The pathos of the situation brought tears to our eyes.
- 情況令人憐憫,看得我們不禁流淚.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. There is abundant pathos in her words.
- 她的話里富有動人哀憐的力量.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. Pathos has this quality , that It'seems ever addressed to one alone.
- 悲傷的感情似乎總是對個人而發(fā),具有令人凄惻的力量.
來自英漢文學 - 嘉莉妹妹
- 4. With touching pathos he described the pangs of hunger.
- 他以極具感傷力的筆觸描述了饑餓的痛苦。
來自辭典例句
- 5. The quite magnificence of his political pathos lay in this.
- 他的深沉博大的政治感召力就在這里.
來自辭典例句