lamentable
lamentable 英 [ˈlæməntəbl] 美 [ləˈmɛntəbəl, ˈlæmən-]
adj. 可悲的；可怜的；哀伤的
- Something that's lamentable is unfortunate. If your basketball team gets killed in the final game, you could call it a lamentable way for the season to end.
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- adj. 可悲的；可怜的；哀伤的
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1. Western countries inclined to take issue with this external empire-building, or with Russia's lamentable internal democracy and human rights deficit, have been told to save their breath.
倾向于对其表露于外的帝国建设或其可怜的内在的民主以及人权赤字表达不同意见的西方国家被告知省省吧。
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2. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given up, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.
我们的政策就是用我们全部能力，用上帝所给予我们的全部力量，同一个在人类黑暗悲惨的罪恶史上所从未有过的穷凶极恶的暴政进行战争。
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3. My parish, when I first arrived, was in a lamentable state.
我的教区，当我第一次到达时，处于破烂的状态中。
- lamentable (adj.) c. 1400, from Middle French lamentable and directly from Latin lamentabilis "full of sorrow, mournful; lamentable, deplorable," from lamentari "to wail, moan, weep" (see lamentation). Related: Lamentably.
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