pathos

英 [ˈpeɪθɒs]

美 [ˈpeɪθɑːs]

n.  感染力; 令人产生悲悯共鸣的力量

IELTSGRE

Collins.1 / BNC.19075 / COCA.17870

牛津词典

noun

• 感染力；令人产生悲悯共鸣的力量
  the power of a performance, description, etc. to produce feelings of sadness and sympathy

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT （情形、电影、戏剧等中的）引人怜悯的特质，感伤力
  Pathosis a quality in a situation, film, or play that makes people feel sadness and pity.
  1. ...the pathos of man's isolation...
     人类所处的孤立状态令人感伤
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
  1. the film captured all the pathos of their situation
  Synonym:poignancy
• a style that has the power to evoke feelings
• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
  1. the blind are too often objects of pity
  Synonym:commiserationpityruth

双语例句

• Very few failed to succumb to this delightful young man so full of the pathos of that uniform.
  大多数人都对这个穿军服的愉快的小伙子那丰富的哀婉情调大加赞叹。
• Pathos, humour and terror, in this film, prove rather incompatible bedfellows.
  在这部影片中，哀婉、幽默、恐惧显得是一些互不相容的拼凑。
• They have eyes full of sadness, loneliness and pathos.
  他们的目光中充满了悲哀、寂寞和感伤的神情。
• He had hearty distaste for songs of pathos.
  他极不爱听感伤歌曲。
• I waited and waited for you,'she went on, her tones suddenly resuming their old fluty pathos.
  “我等你等了又等。”她继续说，说话的时候又突然恢复了从前的凄婉音调。
• Please give me a piano, let me perform as heart pathos.
  请给莪一台钢琴，让莪演绎尽心中的悲情。
• And so that interview between Lucie and Sydney Carton has a pathos that wrings our hearts.
  因此，露西和西德尼·卡登之间的会晤带有一种使我们感到揪心的凄楚的气氛。
• A companion would have been a distraction, diluting the pathos of the moment.
  要是有一个伴侣在旁就会分散我的注意，冲淡此时此刻的哀婉之情。
• Cao Xueqin together with the heroes in the story could be regarded as cultural ones with full pathos.
  曹雪芹和他的作品主人公，均当被视为充斥悲情的文化英雄。
• "I wish I could love," cried Derian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice.
  我希望自己能爱。道林·格雷用低沉哀怨的声音叫道。