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They were failing lamentably to help their sons grow from boyhood to manhood .

他们抱憾未能帮助儿子们顺利地长大成人。

We deplore this lamentably ill-advised decision .

我们强烈反对这个拙劣的、欠考虑的决定。

Poor Tom lamentably disgraced himself at Sir Charles Mirable 's table , by premature inebriation .

可怜的汤姆在查尔斯·米拉贝尔爵士的宴会上，终于入席不久就酩酊大醉，弄得出丑露乖，丢尽了脸皮

The government , says the report , have carried out lamentably few of their promises .

报道认为政府很糟糕，没有兑现大多数诺言。

It 's unclear whether speed of broadband often lamentably slow in China was a factor in the ranking .

目前还不清楚宽带速度是否也是考察因素之一，中国的宽带速度相当慢。

Alan tried and lamentably failed to explain what it was all for .

艾伦给他解释了，但是没有说清这些到底是什么，

But what is lamentably missing is any coherent policy from Washington to support such endeavour .

但可惜的是，华盛顿方面对于此类努力没有出台协调的政策。

Bankers often say they are at the cutting edge of innovation , but many of the systems they use are lamentably old-fashioned .

银行业人士总是说他们处于创新的前沿，但他们使用的很多系统极为老旧。

Aviation was lamentably weak and primitive .

航空设施极其薄弱简陋。

But the situation in the US is lamentably more opaque , since fines are being imposed by numerous different entities .

但美国的情况更为不透明，因为罚单是由形形色色的机构开出的。

The lamentably inadequate plans for retraining officers .

极不恰当的军官再培训计划。

But the problem is that the SEC ( like most regulators ) is so painfully short of resources that investigations take a lamentably long time .

但问题是美国证交会（与多数监管机构一样）资源严重不足，以至于调查会持续很长时间，这令人遗憾。

There have been moments when the EU , as a bloc , failed lamentably to preserve peace .

有好几次，欧盟作为一个整体，都很遗憾地未能保住和平。

While the booklet contains suggestions for Chinese when traveling at home , the main target is to improve the lamentably poor reputation of Chinese tourists abroad .

尽管这本指南是针对中国人在国内旅行提出的建议，但其主要的目的却是提升中国游客在海外糟糕的声誉。

As players of high reputation lamentably misplaced a series of straightforward , no-pressure passes , the size of his task must have become horribly apparent .

在难度不大而且没被施压的情况下，大牌球星们拙劣地犯下一连串传球失误，卡佩罗的任务之艰巨显而易见。

Offending family-orientated Confucian values , neither dried-fish woman nor herbivore man is much interested in romance , part of the reason why Korea 's fertility rate is lamentably low .

鱼干女和食草男背离了以家庭为导向的儒家价值观，对浪漫没有多少兴趣，这在一定程度上可以解释为何韩国的生育率低得可怜。

The dearer the friend , and the longer the journey , and the longer the likely absence , the earlier do we turn up , and the more lamentably do we fail .

朋友交情越好，送的路程越远，朋友离去的时间越长，我们就越早到达车站，相应地，我们遭遇的失败也就越为惨烈。

It 's also a shame that the movie doesn 't develop our hero 's girlfriend , the lamentably named Chatterbox ( Xu Qing ) , or his crew of streetwise friends from way back when .

另一个遗憾是，影片没有好好塑造主角的女朋友，她有个拙劣的名字“话匣子”（许晴饰），也没有好好塑造他那些旧日的街头伙伴们。