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Something lamentable is very or disappointing — a result, a decision, or a standard that should have been better. It is quite formal. Papers, speeches, and school reports like it. Though actually, the older heart of the word is “worth crying over”: to lament is to show deep sadness. Today people often use lamentable more like “terrible” or “a real pity,” not always with tears. It can even sound a little high, or sharp: “a lamentable performance.” You would not usually call a small everyday mistake lamentable unless you wanted to sound grave, or a bit sarcastic.
可悲的、糟透的、令人遺憾的（偏書面）
組成From Middle English and French lamentable, from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing”). By the pieces you can still see: lament + -able.
同家族的字
- lamentthe verb and noun at the root: to show deep sadness
- lamentablythe adverb from this adjective
- lamentationthe noun for deep sadness, or something that expresses it
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lamentableadj/ləˈmɛn.tə.bəl/
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Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
- In what a lamentable caſe were I, If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?
- Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。