woeful

英 [ˈwəʊfl]

美 [ˈwoʊfl]

adj.  糟糕的; 严重的; 不合意的; 悲惨的; 忧伤的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 糟糕的；严重的；不合意的
  very bad or serious; that you disapprove of
  1. She displayed a woeful ignorance of the rules.
     她对这些条例表现出可悲的无知。
• 悲惨的；忧伤的
  very sad
  1. a woeful face
     忧伤的面孔
  2. woeful tales of broken romances
     破裂爱情的悲惨故事

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （人或事物）悲惨的，忧伤的，哀伤的
  If someone or something iswoeful, they are very sad.
  1. ...a woeful ballad.
     忧伤的情歌
• ADJ-GRADED 恶劣的;糟糕的;不合意的
  You can usewoefulto 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

双语例句

• There was a lake with woeful water where there was a road you had walked.
  你在多年前走过的路面，现在满载忧伤的湖水。
• Given its debt, its budget and current account deficits and its woeful lack of competitiveness, Greece cannot escape the debt trap.
  考虑到希腊的债务、预算与经常账户赤字和竞争力的极度低下，该国根本无力摆脱债务陷阱。
• They displayed woeful ignorance of the safety rules.
  他们对安全条例表现出可悲的无知。
• Every day brings a barrage of woeful economic news.
  每天都会出现一连串令人担忧的经济新闻。
• When I saw her woeful face, I knew she had bad news.
  看到她悲伤的面孔时，我就知道她有坏消息了。
• His work displays a woeful lack of imagination.
  他的作品令人遗憾地显示出缺乏想像力。
• This betrays a woeful lack of full understanding of the correlation among social programs, democracy, equity and economic growth, and of enough em.
  这说明社会项目与经济增长之间复杂的相互作用的关系在我国还没有得到充分的认识，并进而在经济社会发展中得到足够的重视。
• Such attitudes are the product of woeful ignorance.
  这样的态度是极度无知造成的。
• They are intensely worried about America's past sins and its current woeful image in the world.
  他们非常担心美国过去的罪孽和它现在在世界上的可悲形象。
• Torres says he found it hard to handle the huge setbacks of his repeated injury problems and Liverpool's woeful campaign.
  托雷斯说道，处理他个人如此巨大的挫折以及反反复复的伤病非常困难，而利物浦俱乐部的糟糕战绩也同样棘手。