Public expenditure on the arts is woefully inadequate.

艺术上的公共支出严重不足。

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Security that is retrofitted is usually woefully inadequate.

对安全功能进行翻新改造通常都是达不到目的的。

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The bill will also help MARTA, Atlanta's woefully inadequate urban-rail system.

这个法案也将有助于MARTA - - -亚特兰大狼狈不堪的城市交通系统。

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"Common sense suggests that a one-to-one ratio is woefully inadequate, " Rashkin writes in his book.

FORBES: Washington's Favorite Tax Credit

For Japan's hard-pressed savers and its underfunded pension schemes, that is a woefully inadequate return.

ECONOMIST: The yen

Its premiums are woefully inadequate to cover its payouts because they are set by politicians in Congress.

FORBES: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Real Crisis