0 a feeling of sorrow for the troubles and sufferings of others -- lítost
1 a cause of sorrow or regret -- škoda
What a pity (that) she can’t come.
2 to feel pity for (someone) -- (po)litovat, mít soucit
She is to be pitied.
She pitied him
One of the great pities is that we did not look at the contraction of this industry in other fields five or six years ago.
He is not a person, therefore, to be pitied.
In those conditions, it seems to me to be a thousand pities to abolish this experiment before anything else has been put in its place.
We can, of course, proceed with-out them, but it would be a thousand pities if we had to do so.
I think everybody will agree it would have been a thousand pities if we had let the contest go by default.
I think it would be a thousand pities if we lost that local interest in our educational administration in those areas.
Indeed, it is the sort of transaction which, in the not too recent past, we pitied other countries for having to make.
I know they think that, and, of course, one cannot but respect their feelings, although one pities them for not understanding the matter more thoroughly.
