pathetic是什么意思（pathetic的用法）

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一、pathetic是什么意思

1、pathetic 令人同情的，可怜的，可悲的

2、来自拉丁语patheticus,来自希腊语pathein,忍受，遭受，词源同passion,pathos.引申词义同感的，同悲的，令人同情的，后用于指可怜的，可悲的。

二、pathetic的用法

1、pathetic (adj.)

2、1590s, "affecting the emotions, exciting the passions," from Middle 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" (see pathos). Meaning "arousing pity, pitiful" is first recorded 1737. Colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested from 1937. Related: Pathetical (1570s); pathetically. Pathetic fallacy (1856, first used by Ruskin) is the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects.

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