喜樂美語
  1. 1悲憫、哀愁、令人心酸的感染力（文學、戲劇用語；不是醫學上的「病理」）

    Pathos is the quality in a person, a situation, a film, or a play that makes you feel pity and sadness. It is not the sadness itself sitting in your chest; it is the power of the thing in front of you to put that feeling there. Teachers of writing and speaking still use the old Greek trio: logos (reasons), ethos (trust in the speaker), and pathos (the pull on your feelings). You will meet it in essays about books and films, not at the dinner table. It sounds formal, a little literary. Though actually, the cousin word pathetic has drifted. It once sat close to pathos — full of feeling, moving — but in everyday English now it is often a put-down: weak, useless, a bit . Pathos itself has not made that mean turn. And despite the shared Greek root with pathology, pathos is not a medical word.

組成From Ancient Greek πάθος (pathos), 'suffering'. In English it does not split.

同家族的字

  • patheticfrom the same Greek pathos; once meant 'moving', now often used to mock
  • sympathyfeeling 'with' someone, same pathos piece
  • empathyfeeling your way into someone else's suffering

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

pathosnoun/ˈpeɪˌθɒs/

  • 1

    The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.

    • His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.
    • She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film. Oh, the horrible pathos of the sight! But she could still speak.
  • 2

    A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.

    • It was impossible to endure the jargon and the affected pathos of the squire any longer.
  • 3

    literaturemediapublishingAn author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.

  • 4

    human-scienceslifestylephilosophyIn theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.

  • 5

    Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。