aviation was lamentably weak and primitive

航空设施极其薄弱简陋。

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。

||1:THE gulf between sentiment and action is as wide as the Mediterranean itself.||2:On May 13th the European Commission issued its plan for dealing with immigration, including the multitude who take to boats on the shores of north Africa in the hope of reaching asylum on European Union soil or, more likely, of being plucked from the wavesby a passing vessel.||3:The report’s authors clearly lament the shameful drowning of thousands of migrants,left to their fate because of cuts in marine patrols that were deemed to be picking up too many people.||4:Nevertheless, the commission’s ideas on what to do fall lamentably short.

||1:同情感性与实际行动之间的鸿沟正如地中海的宽广。||2:5月13号，欧委会商讨处理包含大量从北非海岸乘船起航寄希望于在欧洲大陆寻求到政治避难，但讽刺的是此行更大的可能性是被路过的船只从海浪中救起来的难民的外来移民问题。||3:报告的作者叹息的将这令人感到惭愧羞耻的溺亡数以千计的移民者的悲惨事件归咎于他们的命运，因为由于海军巡逻的介入，理应并已经救起过很多很多人了。||4:虽然如此，欧委会将如何去做才能弥补目前（在应对此类问题）的不足作为了商讨的重点。

Lamentably , rich creditor countries, such as Germany, are doing much less.

可悲的是，那些富裕的债权国，比如德国，却做得很少。

European economies have perked up recently, but the record is still of lamentably slow growth and high unemployment.

欧洲经济最近重新振作起来，但增长仍相当慢，并且失业率较高。

though lamentably out of touch with political trends, is almost up to the minute in intellectual matters.

因为奇怪的事情是，尽管可悲地自外于现实政治的潮流，中国在心智事物方面却几乎是最新式的。