lamentable
英 [ləˈmentəbl]
美 [ləˈmentəbl]
adj. 十分令人失望的; 令人遗憾的; 使人惋惜的
BNC.19782 / COCA.25908
牛津词典
adj.
- 十分令人失望的;令人遗憾的;使人惋惜的
very disappointing- She shows a lamentable lack of understanding.
她显得缺乏理解能力,实在令人遗憾。
- She shows a lamentable lack of understanding.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 令人扼腕的;令人嘘唏的;使人惋惜的
If you describe something aslamentable, you mean that it is very unfortunate or disappointing.- This lamentable state of affairs lasted until 1947...
这一令人遗憾的事态一直持续至1947年。 - His command of English was lamentable.
他的英语水平糟得很。
- This lamentable state of affairs lasted until 1947...
英英释义
adj
- bad
- my finances were in a deplorable state
- a lamentable decision
- her clothes were in sad shape
- a sorry state of affairs
双语例句
- Redwood described the decision to cut benefits as lamentable.
雷德伍德把削减津贴这一决定形容为“令人痛心”。 - The reason for this lamentable state of affairs is political intransigence or lack of focus.
会出现这种令人遗憾的局面,原因是政治上拒绝让步或缺乏关注。 - Things were now come to a lamentable height.
情形到了十分可哀的地步。 - This sounds already lamentable funny, but this is a fact.
这听起来既可悲又可笑,但这是事实。 - Even for the most recent destructive earthquakes in the world there has been a lamentable lack of measured ground acceleration data.
即使不久前世界上发生的大地震,也十分遗憾地没有测到地面加速度数据。 - His command of English was lamentable.
他的英语水平糟得很。 - It wore the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin.
它具有仇恨所创造的一切建筑??也就是废墟的那种令人痛心的形象。 - Tell thou the lamentable tale of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds-Shakespeare.
告诉你们我的令人惋惜的故事,使听众悲痛欲绝-莎士比亚。 - That would be a lamentable fate for the "Great Sea", invoked in a Jewish prayer which gives this book its title.
这样的命运,对于地中海这一“伟大之海”这个称谓来源于一则犹太祷文,同时也是本书书名的来源来说,将是令人扼腕的。 - Three years after this lamentable affair, Colonel burr was arrested.
出了这起可悲事件三年之后,伯尔上校被捕了。