英语释义

• of very poor quality or condition;

  "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"

  "woeful treatment of the accused"

  "woeful errors of judgment"

• affected by or full of grief or woe;

  "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier

片语

Woeful Woebots机器人叛乱

miserable悲惨的；痛苦的；卑鄙的

W woeful可怜的

Woeful Loyalty忠者之恸

woeful ignorance可悲的无知

evil罪恶，邪恶；不幸

quiescent woeful静止的凋零

Woeful pitiful不幸的

woeful eyes忧郁的眼神

Woeful Rain心碎雨

Woeful Education可悲教育

sorry对不起，抱歉（表示委婉的拒绝等）

sad难过的；悲哀的，令人悲痛的；凄惨的，阴郁的（形容颜色）

英汉例句

• on taking the top job, he promised to solve three of the country’s biggest problems: rigged elections, a woeful electricity supply and the militancy in the delta, whence he hails.

  在总统任上，他允诺解决国家的三大难题：选举舞弊，落后的电力供应，和三角洲地带的武装沖突，这就是他上台的目的。

• most parents have a woeful lack of knowledge about basic nutrition.

  大多数家庭严重缺乏基本的营养知识。

• some of the criticism was no doubt grossly unfair but the twins’ woeful tactics left poland marginalised.

  有些批评无疑是过分偏颇的，但这对双胞胎兄弟令人遗憾的策略使得波兰更加边缘化了。

• the next government must deal with a woeful inheritance of vaulting public debt.

  下一届政府必须解决一个难缠的历史遗留问题—跳过公债这个门槛。

• at the same time, conservation efforts in india have fallen from woeful to worse.

  同时，印度在保护方面所作的努力却匮乏的可怜，而且越来越差劲。

• as for me, i have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have i desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

  至于我，那跟从你作牧人的职分，我并没有急忙离弃，也没有想那灾殃的日子。这是你知道的。

• its infrastructure is in woeful shape.

  它的基础设施糟糕透顶。

• congress could do more to sustain that performance, for example by encouraging foreign investment in india’s woeful infrastructure, shops and banks.

  国大党还能做很多来维持这一表现，例如鼓励外国投资进入印度薄弱的基础设施建设、商业和银行业等。

• mr kloppers spoke of bhp’s woeful shortage of tyres for its huge trucks, big mechanical shovels, bearings and all manner of other equipment.

  克罗帕尔先生谈及到必和必拓的种种短处：大卡车的轮胎、大机械铲、轴承和各种其他的设备。

• hours of melancholy calculation and terrible guilt gave no progress, and left me with a woeful regret for the day「s events.

  几小时忧郁的盘算和强烈的负罪感没能带来任何进展，却留给我对当天事件的一腔痛苦悔恨。

• the woeful state of the economy, he said, is 「a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some」.

  他说，美国糟糕的经济形势是「由于某些人的贪婪和不负责任而导致的」。

• ms palin has disqualified herself from that responsibility by showing a woeful grasp of policy.

  帕琳女士对政策把握的不得法证明她并不称职。

• still, the lack of respect shown by his classmates did not hinder mike from persisting with telling his woeful tales.

  但是，他的同学对他不够尊重这个事实并没有阻止迈克坚持讲他悲哀的故事。

• if rwanda taught us anything, it should be that the u.n. is a woeful instrument for responding to an emergency.

  如果我们能从卢旺达惨剧得出什么教训，那便是联合国应对紧急情况时表现龌龊。

• he has promised to clean up nigeria」s elections, improve its woeful electricity supply and deal with the unresolved insurgency in the delta. he has yet to say whether he will run next year.

  乔纳森承诺上台后将凈化选举，改善尼日利亚糟糕的电力供应情况，着手处理悬而未治的三角洲叛乱问题。

• one woven cane bag comes in the shape of a rather woeful dog; another bag is covered with peacock feathers and has a silver stag clasp.

  有一个梭织藤条包形状像一条哀伤犬，另外一个包上盖着孔雀羽毛，有一个银色雄鹿搭扣。

• at the least, it seems a woeful misjudgment on bp’s part.

  至少，对英石油的协议部分，俄罗斯人似乎作了一个悲观的误判。

• nigeria’s woeful electricity supply and poor roads make it hard for entrepreneurs to flourish, or even get by.

  尼日利亚糟糕透顶的电力供应和破烂的公路使企业家门很难在这里繁盛，甚至进入都很困难。

• and part of the fall in inequality (which began in 2001, before lula took office) stems from a big effort over the past quarter of a century to expand brazil’s previously woeful education.

  并且，所得分配不均的下降（开始于2001年，鲁拉就任总统之前）要部分归功于过去四分之一世纪巴西努力普及教育的重大成就。

• the woeful legacy of the crisis could be a supersized banking system gorging on the taxpayers’ tab.

  这场危机的糟糕遗留物可能是一个超大型的贪婪吞食纳税人账单的银行系统。

• but their party organisation in quebec, a key battleground, has been woeful for years.

  但是他们的党组织在魁北克这个主战场，多年以来处境不佳。

• in 2006 an energetic mr fenty (at 35, the youngest mayor in the district's history) inherited a city on the mend after decades of depopulation and woeful governance.

  2006年，精力充沛的芬提先生（35岁，该区史上最年轻的市长）接任这个城市时，其状况已经从几十年前的人口下降，悲惨统治中好转。

相似词

funereal悲哀的；送葬的；适合葬礼的

afflictive难受的；苦恼的；给人痛苦的

wretched可怜的；卑鄙的；令人苦恼或难受的

accursed被诅咒的；讨厌的；可憎的

miserable悲惨的；痛苦的；卑鄙的