"he was sadly neglected"
"it was woefully inadequate"
woefully的用法和样例:
例句
用作副词 (adv.)
It has become commonplace, for example, to say that the Americans were woefully ignorant of Iraq's turbulent history and tangled sociology. 比如,美国人不幸地忽略了伊拉克动荡的历史和混乱的社会状态这种说法是相当普遍的。