- 1可憐的、令人同情的
When something is pitiable, it makes you feel pity: you feel sorry, and you wish things were better for that person, animal, or situation.
When something is pitiable當一件事情是pitiable，it makes you feel pity它會讓你心生憐憫：you feel sorry你覺得難過，and you wish things were better for that person, animal, or situation希望那個人、動物，或那個情況能有更好的結果。
You might talk about a pitiable condition (a sad, hard state) or a pitiable attempt (so weak it almost hurts to watch). That second use is a little sharper — you feel sorry, but you may also be judging, as if the thing is not just sad but poor or small.
You might talk about a pitiable condition你可以說a pitiable condition (a sad, hard state)（悲慘、艱難的狀態），or a pitiable attempt也可以說a pitiable attempt (so weak it almost hurts to watch)（弱到讓人看了心疼的嘗試）。That second use is a little sharper第二種用法帶點更尖銳的味道——you feel sorry你還是覺得可憐，but you may also be judging但同時也帶著一點評判，as if the thing is not just sad but poor or small好像那件事不只是可悲，還顯得低劣或渺小。
The word is a bit formal. In everyday talk, people often say pitiful, or just sad.
The word is a bit formal這個字有點正式。In everyday talk在日常對話裡，people often say pitiful, or just sad大家常常說pitiful，或乾脆說sad。
Though actually, pitiful can sound harsher, more like “this is sadly bad,” while pitiable still keeps a clearer door open to real sympathy.
Though actually不過實際上，pitiful can sound harsherpitiful聽起來比較刺耳，more like 'this is sadly bad'比較像是在說「這爛得可悲」，while pitiable still keeps a clearer door open to real sympathy而pitiable還是留著比較明顯的一扇門，通往真正的同情。
core核心畫面
組成From Middle French, from Old French piteable. On the surface: pity + -able (worthy of pity / able to make you feel pity).
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pitiableadj/ˈpɪti.əbəl/
- 1
That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
- Mr Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs, had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.
- The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago.
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