Thy foolish reading hath wrought its woeful work at last, and ta'en thy wit away.(你傻乎乎地读书，最终造成了你的不幸，弄得你发疯了。)
Its infrastructure is in woeful shape.(它的基础设施糟糕透顶。)
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。)
Mother Nature may be the cause of their misery, but a woeful lack of government planning seems to have exacerbated it.(大自然也许是让他们遭遇不幸的起因，但是government不堪一击的防灾计划则让局面更加恶化。)
The woeful news grieved the nation.(这悲惨的消息使举国悲痛。)
The woeful state of cyber security is, simply, a market failure.(简单地说，网络安全的糟糕状态是市场失灵的表现。)
His woeful eyes betrayed his feeling.(他忧伤的眼神泄露了他的心情。)
Even with the apparent acceleration, however, job creation remains woeful.(尽管出现了显著的加速上升，新增就业状况却相当悲惨。)
She displayed a woeful ignorance of the rules.(她对这些条例表现出可悲的无知。)
Standards of training and monitoring health professionals are woeful.(训练和监管医疗保健专业人士的标准就更糟糕了。)
