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pathos

英 ['peɪθɒs] 美 ['peθɑs]

解释

n. 悲怅；痛苦；同情；哀婉动人的词句

※ 提供单词"pathos"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

pathos 痛苦，同情，感染力

来自希腊语pathos,忍受，疾病，来自PIE*pei,伤害，词源同pathetic,patient.引申词义痛苦，同情，感染力等。

英文词源

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 kenčiu "to suffer," pakanta "patience").

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例句和用法

1. The pathos of the situation brought tears to our eyes.: 情况令人怜悯,看得我们不禁流淚.

2. There is abundant pathos in her words.: 她的话里富有动人哀怜的力量.

3. Pathos has this quality , that It'seems ever addressed to one alone.: 悲伤的感情似乎总是对个人而发,具有令人凄恻的力量.

4. With touching pathos he described the pangs of hunger.: 他以极具感伤力的笔触描述了饥饿的痛苦。

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这里.