Lamentable

(a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.

(a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.

(a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.

巴里整理

• I only say to you what the lamentable state of my health obliges me to say to everybody. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She met Gerty's lamentable eyes, fixed on her in a despairing effort at consolation, and the look brought her to herself. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The teachers, animated solely by good intentions, had no idea of execution, and a lamentable jumble was the upshot of their kind endeavours. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Hence the lamentable waste in carrying over such expertness as is achieved in dealing with them to the affairs of life beyond the schoolroom. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I warn you once more that the fever has turned to typhus, and that your treatment is responsible for this lamentable change. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• First, I come to bear my testimony, with profound sorrow, to the lamentable disagreements between Sir Percival and Lady Glyde. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But at first their exclusiveness is merely to preserve soundness of doctrine and worship, warned by such lamentable lapses as those of King Solomon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But it shortly became a most lamentable slouch of a journal. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Notwithstanding this lamentable occurrence, the journey was continued to Manchester, and the carriages returned to Liverpool the same evening. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The lamentable effect of this split upon the solidarity of Christendom it is impossible to exaggerate. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I am told that it is of the last importance to ascertain the exact date of that lamentable journey, and I have anxiously taxed my memory to recall it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They would only make the first oppression of this lamentable marriage fall the heavier on her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The lamentable weakness of the words roused a motion of pity in Lily's breast. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• For various and heinous are the acts of transgression against the rule of our blessed Order in this lamentable history. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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