DISASTERin a way that makes you feel sad, especially because someone has died 悲惨地,不幸地
She was tragically killed in a car accident.
她在一场交通事故中不幸丧生。
[sentence adverbadv]
Tragically, her dancing career ended only six months later.
很不幸,她的舞蹈生涯仅六个月后就结束了。
[+adj/adverbadv]
He died when a parachute jump went tragically wrong.
他死于跳伞时的不幸失误。
Examples from the Corpus
tragically• While never lovers, Joe and Mary are star-crossed, as tragically as Romeo and Juliet.• And tragically, both killed themselves.• The number of patients with access to the drugs is tragically low.• Pain of a rather more tangiblenature brought about Ricky Ellcock's tragicallyprematureretirement.• During that time, another generation of schoolchildren has been tragically shortchanged.• He pointed out that a young officer's life had been tragically taken while doing his duty, protecting others.• Yet, tragically, the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years.• The marriage ended tragically when Normancaught her with another man.