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，却只能穿在那些与幸福快乐格格不入的人们身上。
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.
遗憾的是，编辑兼导演达内尔·马丁把故事集中到了这些先驱者的小缺点——贪婪，欲望和毒品上，使每一个紧凑的悲剧都乏善可陈。
"What a pity! They'll die down there in the grass, " said the third lawyer, whose name I forget.
“真遗憾！她们会在草丛中死去，”第三个律师说，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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