形容詞 pathetic:

1. deserving or inciting pity
   同義詞：hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
2. inspiring mixed contempt and pity
   同義詞：pitiable, pitiful
3. inspiring scornful pity- Dashiell Hammett
   同義詞：ridiculous, silly

1. How pathetic!
   真讓人泄氣！
2. She dances well, but as a singer, she is pathetic.
   她跳舞跳得好，但唱歌就差勁了。
3. We saw the pathetic sight of starving children.
   我們看到挨餓的兒童悲慘可憐的樣子。
4. His tears were pathetic to witness.
   他的眼淚引起在場人的憐憫。

pa.thet.ic

adj.（形容詞）
Arousing or capable of arousing sympathetic sadness and compassion.
令人同情的，可憐的：激發(fā)或能夠激發(fā)傷感和同情的
Arousing or capable of arousing scornful pity.
又笨又可憐的，無價(jià)值的：引起或能夠引發(fā)帶有輕蔑色彩的憐憫的

來源：
French pathétique
法語 pathétique
from Late Latin pathôticus
源自 后期拉丁語 pathôticus
from Greek pathôtikos [sensitive]
源自 希臘語 pathôtikos [敏感的]
from pathôtos [liable to suffer]
源自 pathôtos [易于遭受苦難的]
from pathos [suffering] * see k went(h)-
源自 pathos [痛苦，苦難] *參見 k went(h)-

【引伸】
pathet.ically
adv.（副詞）
<參考詞匯><同義詞>pathetic,pitiful,pitiable,piteous,lamentableThese adjectives describe one that inspires or deserves pity.Somethingpathetic elicits sympathetic sadness and compassion:
這些形容詞都指激發(fā)或贏得同情的人或物。Pathetic 表示傷感和同情：
例句：
.Everything human is pathetic. (Mark Twain).Often the word refers to what is so poor that it arouses scornful pity:
.人類具有同情心. （馬克·吐溫）。這個(gè)詞常指因十分貧窮而引起輕視的憐憫：

例句：
The academic standards in the school were pathetic. Bothpitiful and pitiable apply to what is touchingly sad:
學(xué)校的學(xué)術(shù)水平低得可憐。 Pitiful 和 pitiable 都用于指令人感傷的東西：

例句：
.She told a most pitiful story. (Samuel Butler).
.她講敘了一個(gè)十分令人感傷的故事. （塞繆爾·巴特勒）。

例句：
.The emperor had been in a state of pitiable vacillation. (William Hickling Prescott).Sometimes the terms connote contemptuous pity,as for what is hopelessly inept or inadequate:
.皇帝曾處于令人可憐的舉棋不定狀態(tài). （威廉·希克林·普雷斯科特）。這兩個(gè)詞有時(shí)暗指輕蔑的同情，如令人絕望地?zé)o能或不合適的東西：

例句：
.If when the chips are down, the world`s most powerful nation . . . acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. (Richard M. Nixon).
.如果當(dāng)情況危急時(shí)，世界上最強(qiáng)大的國家…象一個(gè)可憐的無助的巨人，那么集權(quán)主義和獨(dú)裁勢力將會(huì)威脅到全世界的自由國家和組織機(jī)構(gòu). （理查德·M·尼克松）。

例句：
.That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units. (Thomas Hardy).
.那個(gè)被稱為地球的沖積而成的寒冷球體，整體是如此令人生懼，各部分又是那么懦弱甚至令人生憐. （托馬斯·哈代）。

Piteous applies to what cries out for pity:
Piteous 用于指因可憐喊出的：
例句：
.They . . . made piteous lamentation to us to save them. (Daniel Defoe).
.他們向我們示以令人可憐的悲傷來自保. （丹尼爾·笛福）。

Lamentable suggests the evocation of pity mixed with sorrow:
Lamentable 指含有悲傷的同情的喚起：
例句：
.Tell thou the lamentable tale of me,/And send the hearers weeping to their beds. (Shakespeare).See also Synonyms at moving
.講述我的悲傷故事/讓聽者痛不欲生. （莎士比亞）參見同義詞 moving