"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,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.