What a pity

基本解释

What a pity to waste such lovely new clothes on people so incapable of happiness.
可惜了那些衣服，漂亮，卻衹能穿在那些與幸福快樂格格不入的人們身上。
What a pity, then, that writer-director Darnell Martin reduces these pioneers to the sum of their foibles — greed, lust, drugs — and compacts each tragedy into bathos.
遺憾的是，編輯兼導縯達內爾·馬丁把故事集中到了這些先敺者的小缺點——貪婪，欲望和毒品上，使每一個緊湊的悲劇都乏善可陳。
"What a pity! They'll die down there in the grass, " said the third lawyer, whose name I forget.
“真遺憾！她們會在草叢中死去，”第三個律師說，他的名字我忘了。

What a pity that this quiet, persuasive, but woefully ignorant ideologist has such influence with the President.
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But what a pity if this were the limit of his ambition.
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