痛心疾首

Even bankers are taking off the sackcloth and ashes.

甚至连银行家都不再痛心疾首了。

Cue the hand-wringing about digital distraction: Fewer children are reading books frequently for fun, according to a new report released Thursday by Scholastic, the children's book publisher.

为数字设备强大的分心效果痛心疾首吧。根据儿童图书出版商学乐教育集团（Scholastic）前不久发布的一份新报告，为享受乐趣而频繁读书的孩子比以前更少了。

Mill would have been horrified to learn of university students silencing the opinions of others

密尔如果知道大学学生强迫别人不发表意见肯定会痛心疾首

Rather than accept the message , Owen stubbornly blamed Keegan ruining his confidence.

可是,令人痛心疾首的是, 欧文还指责基冈毁了他的自信.

Those who still linger on the entrance of life, hesitating to choose the bright road, remember that when years are passed and your feet stumble on the dark mountains, you will cry bitterly, but in vain:

在人生路口徘徊，不知该不该选择光明大道的年轻人啊，你们千万要记住：当你青春已逝，双足在黑暗的群山中举步维艰，跌跌撞撞之时，你才痛心疾首地呼唤：

Misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents.

误用词语通常是引来嘲笑而误用人才则会令人痛心疾首.

The shift to casual dress, while welcome in everyday life, seems to be bleeding over into fancier events where more people are ignoring formal and semiformal dress guidelines.

如今人们在日常生活中更倾向于穿休闲的服装了，不过也有越来越多的人忽视了在正式场合的正式和半正式着装规则，这可真是让人痛心疾首。

They searched their little consciences in public , breasts were beaten.

他们当着众人之面搜索自己已近乎泯灭的所谓的的良心, 做出一副痛心疾首的样子.

When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate, painful tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the15 years they had been married.

治疗师问他们有甚麽问题，太太便痛心疾首、喋喋不休地一一数说这15年来的问题。

On the other hand, people who grieve over and lament the loss of traditions would do well to do some re-thinking: are there elements in our traditions that have becomeoutdated?

那些面对传统失传而痛心疾首的人也要好好反思：我们的传统是否有些过时的成分？

The public debt crisis in the eurozone has provoked much gnashing of teeth.

欧元区公共债务危机令人痛心疾首。

I'd be at someone's desk or in the hallway or in a meeting and I had a mortifying habit of turning any conversation to my new and thrilling passion.

无论是在某个同事的办公桌旁，或是走廊里，还是开会中，我都有个令人痛心疾首的习惯，那就是能把任何谈话都转到这个令我兴奋的新爱好上。