pity，take pity on，have compassion for，commiserate，commiseration ；

[例句] 她抑制着心中的自怜，将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。 She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.

[例句] 据说他对她说的最后一句话是：“别怜悯我。” Supposedly his last words to her were: "You must not pity me."

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[例句] 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识,才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事,同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者. It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up - holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim.

[例句] 他对怜悯已无动于衷? His mind was hardened against pity.

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