The biggest stupid for us lies not in ignorance of wisdom, but in reluctance to fulfill it. That is precisely why there exist so many mediocre and self-piteous people.(人最大的不智不是不知道，而是知道了卻遲遲不愿去做，所以平庸卻又自憐的人很多。)

The dog's endeavour to avoid him was unsuccessful; as I guessed by a scutter downstairs, and a prolonged, piteous yelping.(從一陣慌忙跑下樓的聲音和可憐的長嗥，我就猜出來了。)

After getting a scolding, the son looks at old father to say with piteous eyes: "Why should you marry her?""(挨罵后，兒子用哀怨的眼神看著老爸說：“你為什么要娶她？”)

My choice, however, was prompted by considerations whose essence was, as I realized too late, a piteous compromise.(但是，驅(qū)使我做出選擇的是深思熟慮了誰是令人憐憫的牽累，而我對此發(fā)現(xiàn)得太晚了。)

She dropped her voice, and looked so sad and piteous .(她把聲音放得很低，一副悲悲戚戚的樣子，真是可憐。)

They. made piteous lamentation to us to save them(Daniel Defoe.(他們向我們示以令人可憐的悲傷來自保（丹尼爾笛福）。)

John looked piteous, like a drowned mouse.(約翰那模樣好慘，活像一只落水的老鼠。)

After the exclamation of surprise that broke from Vereshtchagin he uttered a piteous cry of pain, and that cry was his undoing.(韋列復金在發(fā)出那聲驚叫之后，緊接著又痛得他可憐地呼喊，而這一聲呼喊倒要了他的命。)

Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With piteous recognition in fixed eyes, Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.(我小心翼翼的試探他們，一個涌現(xiàn),固執(zhí)的眼里帶著哀怨的贊譽，舉起絕望的雙手好像要賜福與我。)

The first situation is not fear-inspiring or piteous , but simply odious to us.(第一種情況不能引發(fā)憐憫或恐懼，只能單純引起我們的厭惡。)

'What did I do this time?' Helen looked piteous.