The daughter 's dowry or wedding feast is so pitiably small .
这个女儿的嫁妆或结婚宴席实在寒碜得可怜。
And what she could earn seemed so pitiably small .
而现在她能挣到的钱似乎太少了。
" We have had , and may still have , worse things to tell of him ; but none , we apprehend , so pitiably weak ; "
我们已经说过、也许还会说到他这个人的过失;但就我们所知,没有一件比这更软弱得可怜的了;
" Very well , " alfonso replied pitiably as he peered upon the stocky woman sauntering within their midst , keeping quiet , a look of self-wondering cast from her striking blue eyes .