lamentable的意思|lamentable的解释-里氏词典

lamentable ['læmәntәbl]

a. 可悲的, 哀伤的, 可怜的

lamentable

[ adj ]
bad; unfortunate
<adj.all>
my finances were in a deplorable statea lamentable decision
her clothes were in sad shape
a sorry state of affairs

Lamentable \Lam"en*ta*ble\, a. [L. lamentabilis: cf. F.
lamentable.]
1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable
countenance. [Archaic] ``Lamentable eye.'' --Spenser.

2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful;
pitiable; regrettable; unfortunate; as, a lamentable
misfortune, or error. ``Lamentable helplessness.''
--Burke.

3. Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or
ridiculous sense. --Bp. Stillingfleet. --
{Lam"en*ta*ble*ness}, n. -- {Lam"en*ta*bly}, adv.

Oleg Averzhanov's decorations are lamentable in their flimsiness and rampant improbability.
Government officials have called the shooting of the fishermen last Saturday at the Venezuelan-Colombian border a "lamentable confusion."
It is well-known that social and economic change over the past 50 years has far outpaced reform of the structure of the country's welfare state, with lamentable consequences.
But, lamentable as some may think it, we inherit an American experience, as America inherits a European experience.
But it would be the most lamentable failure of statesmanship to allow negotiations to founder over such a relatively minor issue, and simultaneously provide the enemies of compromise with a triumph that would be trumpeted throughout the Middle East.
A decade after Ashton's death, his choreography languishes in the repertory, and is already diminished in manner. The catalogue of missed opportunities is long and lamentable.
They will also direct business to the state-owned wineries rather than the new private ones. In many areas the vines themselves are in a lamentable state.
"The financial performance of USH has been lamentable and the management has been in disarray for five years," said Meggitt's Managing Director Ken Coates.
YESTERDAY'S PUBLIC row in the European Parliament, between the Danish foreign minister and Greek deputies, over Greek resistance to the diplomatic recognition of Macedonia was a lamentable distraction.
But the Angolan operation has so far been a lamentable failure: elections have taken place, but the civil war goes on.
Many analysts praise Stet for boosting investment and services, which should increase profits. But lamentable co-ordination and political differences often leaves the telecoms companies vulnerable.
Then followed the lamentable "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and now the equally lamentable "Burglar."
Then followed the lamentable "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and now the equally lamentable "Burglar."
Like the lamentable "Cry Freedom," "A World Apart" focuses on South African whites fighting apartheid.
V.G. Trukhanovski of the Academy of Sciences, a bearded veteran of 40 years of stereotyped controversy, was especially lamentable.
But no child was more father to the man, and like most histories of childhood this is one of unrealistic and thwarted ambitions, lamentable moral compromises and excessive parental control.
This year, bourse analysts estimate that the deficit will narrow to FM9.7bn, with as much as FM6.5bn of that figure due to the lamentable position of the banks.
Col. North and his allies attempted to drape Washington's ghost over the executive branch's lamentable habit of duping the legislative branch.
If so, it is lamentable that economically literate senior aides - including Larry Summers at the Treasury - are so eager to play this charade. US officials, of course, sometimes claim they are not demanding numerical targets.

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