lamentably

1. ADJ-GRADED 令人扼腕的；令人嘘唏的；使人惋惜的
   If you describe something as lamentable, you mean that it is very unfortunate or disappointing.
   1. This lamentable state of affairs lasted until 1947...
      这一令人遗憾的事态一直持续至1947年。
   2. His command of English was lamentable.
      他的英语水平糟得很。

1. We deplore this lamentably ill-advised decision.
   我们强烈反对这个拙劣的、欠考虑的决定。
2. They were failing lamentably to help their sons grow from boyhood to manhood.
   他们抱憾未能帮助儿子们顺利地长大成人。
3. Bankers often say they are at the cutting edge of innovation, but many of the systems they use are lamentably old-fashioned.
   银行业人士总是说他们处于创新的前沿，但他们使用的很多系统极为老旧。
4. But the problem is that the SEC ( like most regulators) is so painfully short of resources that investigations take a lamentably long time.
   但问题是美国证交会（与多数监管机构一样）资源严重不足，以至于调查会持续很长时间，这令人遗憾。
5. While the booklet contains suggestions for Chinese when traveling at home, the main target is to improve the lamentably poor reputation of Chinese tourists abroad.
   尽管这本指南是针对中国人在国内旅行提出的建议，但其主要的目的却是提升中国游客在海外糟糕的声誉。
6. It's unclear whether speed of broadband often lamentably slow in China was a factor in the ranking.
   目前还不清楚宽带速度是否也是考察因素之一，中国的宽带速度相当慢。
7. The government, says the report, have carried out lamentably few of their promises.
   报道认为政府很糟糕，没有兑现大多数诺言。
8. Offending family-orientated Confucian values, neither dried-fish woman nor herbivore man is much interested in romance, part of the reason why Korea's fertility rate is lamentably low.
   鱼干女和食草男背离了以家庭为导向的儒家价值观，对浪漫没有多少兴趣，这在一定程度上可以解释为何韩国的生育率低得可怜。
9. The dearer the friend, and the longer the journey, and the longer the likely absence, the earlier do we turn up, and the more lamentably do we fail.
   朋友交情越好，送的路程越远，朋友离去的时间越长，我们就越早到达车站，相应地，我们遭遇的失败也就越为惨烈。
10. The lamentably inadequate plans for retraining officers.
    极不恰当的军官再培训计划。
11. Aviation was lamentably weak and primitive.
    航空设施极其薄弱简陋。
12. As players of high reputation lamentably misplaced a series of straightforward, no-pressure passes, the size of his task must have become horribly apparent.
    在难度不大而且没被施压的情况下，大牌球星们拙劣地犯下一连串传球失误，卡佩罗的任务之艰巨显而易见。
13. There have been moments when the EU, as a bloc, failed lamentably to preserve peace.
    有好几次，欧盟作为一个整体，都很遗憾地未能保住和平。

adv

1. in an unfortunate or deplorable manner
   1. he was sadly neglected
   2. it was woefully inadequate

   Synonym:    deplorablysadlywoefully