pathetic
英 [pə'θetɪk]
美 [pə'θɛtɪk]
語源
哀れな, 哀れな, 悲惨なラテン語のpatheticusから、ギリシャ語のpathein（耐える、苦しむ）から、語源的には情熱、pathosと同じである。
英語の語源
- pathetic (adj.)
- 1590s, "affecting the emotions, exciting the passions," from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer" (see pathos). Meaning "arousing pity, pitiful" is first recorded 1737. Colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested from 1937. Related: Pathetical (1570s); pathetically. Pathetic fallacy (1856, first used by Ruskin) is the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects.
例文
- 1. We encountered the pathetic sight of a family packing up its home.
- 家族が家を片付けて出かけようとしている凄惨な光景を目撃した。
- 2.It 's a pound for a small glass of wine，which is pathetic .
- ワインのグラス1杯に1ポンドなんて最低だ。
- 3.She now looked small，shrunken and pathetic .
- 彼女は今やせて枯れているように見えて、かわいそうだ。
- 4.It 's ridiculous，it 's pathetic ，it 's a joke.
- これは本当にでたらめで、悲しくて、おかしい。
- 5.Don 't be so pathetic .
- そんなに嫌われるな。