take pity on

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take pity on 的定义

  1. Also, have pity on. Show compassion or mercy to, as in Take pity on the cook and eat that last piece of cake, or, as Miles Coverdale's 1535 translation of the Bible has it, “Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye, my friends.” This idiom may be used half-jokingly, as in the first example, or seriously. [Late 1200s]

take pity on 近义词

take pity on

等同于 pity

更多take pity on例句

  1. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  2. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  3. And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
  4. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  5. Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.
  6. I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
  7. Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”
  8. But it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.
  9. And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.
  10. Where the dampness is excessive the fronds take on an unhealthy appearance, and mould may appear.