| 释义 |
pathos|ˈpeɪθɒs|
[mod. a. Gr. πάθος suffering, feeling: so F. pathos (Molière 1672).]
1. That quality in speech, writing, music, or artistic representation (or transf. in events, circumstances, persons, etc.) which excites a feeling of pity or sadness; power of stirring tender or melancholy emotion; pathetic or affecting character or influence.
1668Dryden Dram. Poesy Ess. (Ker) I. 81 There is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 1632 There dwells a noble pathos in the skies, Which warms our passions. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. ii. xi. 263 He descanted on the woes of the land with a pathos which drew tears from every eye. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §6. 399 The tale of Protestant sufferings was told with a wonderful pathos..by John Foxe.
b. A pathetic expression or utterance. rare.
1579E. K. Gloss Spenser's Sheph. Cal. May 189 And with) A very Poeticall παθός [ed. 1591 pathos]. a1644Westfield Eng. Face (1646) 127 ‘Lord..If thou wilt pardon this people!’ It was a vehement pathos. 1853–8Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 294 Little pathoses..are abundant enough.
2. Suffering (bodily or mental). rare.
1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Pathos, vid. Pathema [Pathema, all preternatural Conturbation wherewith our Body is molested]. 1842Tennyson Love & Duty 82 Shall sharpest pathos blight us, knowing all Life needs for life is possible to will? 1853Dunglison Med. Lex., Pathos, Affection, Disease.
3. In reference to art, esp. ancient Greek art: The quality of the transient or emotional, as opposed to the permanent or ideal: see ethos 2.
1881Q. Rev. Oct. 542 The real is preferred to the ideal, transient emotion to permanent lineaments, pathos to ethos. |