woefully

1. ADJ-GRADED （人或事物）悲惨的，忧伤的，哀伤的
   If someone or something is woeful, they are very sad.
   1. ...a woeful ballad.
      忧伤的情歌
2. ADJ-GRADED 恶劣的;糟糕的;不合意的
   You can use woeful to emphasize that something is very bad or undesirable.
   1. Such attitudes are the product of woeful ignorance.
      这样的态度是极度无知造成的。
   2. ...the woeful state of the economy.
      糟糕的经济状况

1. What is woefully apparent is that these questions have not been seriously addressed.
   悲哀的是，这些问题显然没有得到认真解决。
2. Emerging countries, including China, are woefully under-represented in these bodies.
   遗憾的是，中国等新兴国家在这些机构中代表性不足。
3. It remains woefully obscure& at least to most American wine drinkers.
   但尽管如此，了解这种酒的人还是少得可怜&至少美国大多数葡萄酒爱好者都对其一无所知。
4. Modern science has operated in self-contained compartments. most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized.
   现代科学一直是分门别类各自为政的。许多科学被不幸的分成了小门类。
5. Then the woefully inadequate provision of health care to the masses of poor people becomes strikingly clear.
   那么提供给穷苦大众的卫生服务工作不足得可悲也就一清二楚了。
6. It's been a busy couple of weeks, so the bins are woefully bare.
   已经忙了好几个星期，所以箱子已经变得很空荡了。
7. As a result, they are often woefully lacking in the safety culture expected of a normal industrialised society.
   因此，它们通常不幸地缺乏人们期待正常工业化社会所具备的安全文化。
8. Even today, its foreign service remains woefully understaffed: both New Zealand and Singapore have more serving diplomats.
   即使在今天，印度外交机构的人员仍然远远不足：新西兰和新加坡两国在任外交官均多于印度。
9. We are still woefully ignorant of the causes of this disease.
   不幸的是，我们仍对这种疾病的致病原因一无所知。
10. He was sadly neglected; it was woefully inadequate.
    他被忽略了，真可怜；少得可怜。
11. 'Public understanding of energy conservation and emissions reduction is still woefully behind,'he says, adding that more education and publicity of the issue by the government is needed.
    他说，公众对节能减排的理解仍然落后。他还表示，这个问题上政府应该进一步加强教育和宣传。
12. The explosive growth of structured investment vehicles at the height of the credit boom was also woefully under-reported.
    不幸的是，结构性投资工具在信贷繁荣鼎盛时期的爆炸性增长也没有得到充分报道。
13. This shielding is woefully inadequate.
    这保护层很遗憾的不够充分。
14. They are correct on the first two points and woefully wrong on the third.
    他们前两点是正确的，但第三点则大错特错了。
15. They have been woefully short of it since the credit crunch.
    自信贷紧缩以来，它们一直面临资金匮乏问题，这令人惋惜。
16. They remain woefully short of the necessities of life, such as jobs, clean water and electricity.
    他们仍然极其缺乏生活必需品，比如说工作，洁净的水和电力。
17. Security that is retrofitted is usually woefully inadequate.
    对安全功能进行翻新改造通常都是达不到目的的。
18. To call this a security hole is to understate the point woefully.
    不幸的是，将它称之为安全性漏洞有些轻描淡写。
19. It has become commonplace, for example, to say that the Americans were woefully ignorant of Iraq's turbulent history and tangled sociology.
    比如，美国人不幸地忽略了伊拉克动荡的历史和混乱的社会状态这种说法是相当普遍的。
20. The current global institutional apparatus is woefully incapable of overseeing the financial system that is evolving.
    令人遗憾的是，当前的全球机构设置没有能力监管不断发展变化的金融体系。
21. There was some truth in this argument, but the alternative hypothesis that fiscal and monetary virtue would be sufficient proved to be woefully mistaken.
    这一论点有一定的道理，但另一种假设只要有好的财政和货币政策就足够了已被证实是一个悲哀的错误。
22. Since Mr Mandela retired in 1999, the country has been woefully led.
    曼德拉先生1999年退休后，南非一直没能得到明君的领导。
23. The peripheral countries of Europe are meanwhile stuck with woefully weak competitive positions and no easy adjustment mechanism.
    与此同时，欧洲外围国家不幸地陷入了竞争力疲弱、同时没有轻松调整机制的境地。
24. Most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized.
    许多科学被不幸的分成了小门类。
25. Its only defense, a concrete sea wall, which turned out to be woefully small.
    它唯一的防护设施，是一座水泥防波墙。事实证明，这座墙实面对那次海啸，实在微不足道。
26. It is too early to cheer; but this may be an important reform to a woefully repressive system.
    虽然现在就庆祝为时尚早；但这可能是该国令人遗憾的专政体系的重大变革。
27. Zhang's misfortune is not uncommon. China's housing boom has created a woefully frustrated class of bachelors.
    张所遭遇的这种不幸并不少见，中国房产热潮造就了一个失落的单身汉阶层。
28. And he deferred payments into the state pension fund& worryingly, as it is woefully underfunded.
    由于严重缺乏资金，他只好忧虑地延迟支付国家养老基金。
29. Their own techniques was at this time woefully imperfect.
    当时，他们本身的技术也低得可怜。
30. The preparations were woefully inadequate.
    准备工作未免太不够了。

adv

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

   Synonym:    deplorablylamentablysadly