Public expenditure on the arts is woefully inadequate.

艺术上的公共支出严重不足。

"He's gone," she said woefully.

“他走了，”她难过地说。

How woefully he was undone!

他是多么不幸啊！

The police, too, have been woefully inactive.

警方也一直消极得令人悲伤。

Mr Giuliani has done woefully in the early states.

朱利安尼先生在前面几个州表现糟糕。

Maybe an important database is woefully out of date.

也许某个重要的数据库大大过时。

The typical North American diet is woefully out of balance.

典型的北美饮食可悲地远远失去平衡。

Security that is retrofitted is usually woefully inadequate.

对安全功能进行翻新改造通常都是达不到目的的。

To call this a security hole is to understate the point woefully.

不幸的是，将它称之为安全性漏洞有些轻描淡写。

As a sector, we're woefully behind when it comes to evaluation skills.

在一个部门，在评估技能上，我们已经严重地落后了。

Yet the two firms are woefully short of capital and in need of support.

然而悲哀的是，这两家公司仍缺少资本并需要支持。

The bill will also help MARTA, Atlanta's woefully inadequate urban-rail system.

这个法案也将有助于MARTA - - -亚特兰大狼狈不堪的城市交通系统。

Is it shameful that they'd be so woefully unprepared for the demand it would draw?

是不是这样完全没有为可能的需求而做好准备很丢脸呢？

Even if wordsseem woefully inadequate to convey your real feelings, try using them anyway.

尽管你无法用足够的言语去表达自己全部的情感，也还是尝试着说说吧！

The European Union has wobbled woefully, yet Russia too will pay dearly for its Georgian adventure

欧盟对俄的摇摆态度过于严重，然而俄罗斯同样要为格鲁吉亚的战局付出沉重的代价

Its budget has risen far more slowly than the markets it oversees, leaving it woefully understaffed.

其预算的增长速度比它所监督的市场的增长速度要缓慢得许多，这给委员会造成了可悲的人员匮乏。

No matter how the RTA allocates the pie, however, the current pot of money seems woefully inadequate.

不管区域交通署如何分配它的预算，现在的资金似乎是不够的。

The British tax structure, with its thousand-odd reliefs and numerous tax rates, is woefully inefficient.

英国的税收结构因其中的千余种减税项目和高税率，效率严重低下。

Zhang's misfortune is not uncommon. China's housing boom has created a woefully frustrated class of bachelors.

张所遭遇的这种不幸并不少见，中国房产热潮造就了一个失落的单身汉阶层。

They were stressed out, they were woefully understaffed, they had way too much work AND half the people there were new hires.

他们压力重重，严重人手不足，有很多很多工作，并且半数员工都是新人。

It has become commonplace, for example, to say that the Americans were woefully ignorant of Iraq's turbulent history and tangled sociology.

比如，美国人不幸地忽略了伊拉克动荡的历史和混乱的社会状态这种说法是相当普遍的。

Before 2009, for example, Congress fared woefully in a series of state polls, provoking dire predictions for the party's national prospects.

例如，2009年之前国大党在一连串的各邦民意调查中表现令人遗憾，引发了对国大党掌管国家前景的悲观预测。

But maternal health is woefully neglected, and those suffering fistulas are completely voiceless — young, female, poor, rural and ostracized.

但妇女卫生状况令人悲哀地被忽视了，忍受着瘘症折磨的这一群体完全不能表达自己的声音——年轻，女性，贫穷，居住在乡下且遭到排斥。