Fifty thousand refugees have arrived at nanking in a pitiable condition .
五万灾民涌入南京，处境可怜。
They looked like pitiable young boys .
他们更像可怜的小男孩。
She had no fear of the shadows ; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind - or rather that cold accretion called the world , which , so terrible in the mass , is so unformidable , even pitiable , in its units .
