0 a feeling of sadness or sympathy for someone else's unhappiness or difficult situation:
The girl stood gazing in/with pity at the old lion in the cage.
She agreed to go out with him more out of pity than anything.
"Can't you go to the party? Oh, that's (such) a pity."
[ + (that) ] It's a pity (that) children spend so little time outside nowadays.
[ + (that) ] Pity (that) you didn't remember to give me the message.
What a pity you're ill!
"I called the restaurant, but they're closed tonight." "Pity."
We'll have to leave early, more's the pity (= and I am unhappy about it).
We took pity on a couple of people waiting in the rain for a bus and gave them a lift.
I struggled up the steps with my bags until eventually someone took pity and helped me.
1 to feel sadness or sympathy for someone's unhappiness or bad situation:
I pity anyone who's never been in love.
He's deeply unhappy, and more to be pitied than criticized.
I pity you having to put up with her at work!
2 sympathy and understanding for someone else’s suffering or troubles:
It's a pity Christmas has become so commercialized.
"She can't come." "What a pity."
I was toiling up the hill with four heavy bags when he took pity on me.
She is to be congratulated on that, or perhaps pitied for it.
Obviously, any physical or mental weakness is to be pitied.
What a thousand pities it is to discourage a boy's keen spirit at that age.
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同情,憐憫, 遺憾,可惜…
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