heartrending

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With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile.
在珂赛特后面陪着她进来的是一位白发老人，态度庄重，但含着微笑，可这是一种捉摸不定和沉痛的微笑。
And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, abandoned or forgotten, and a hole.
而最使人痛心的是，在那堆石块后面，钉有锌牌的树脚下，有刚刚翻动过的泥土，留下的是一把被遗忘或被抛弃了的十字镐，还有一个土穴。
And at last, with bowed head and quavering voice I would have to make a beginning--but too keenly conscious that to none else in the room but me was this performance sufficiently heartrending.
最后，还得开始吟唱，低垂着脑袋，颤抖的声音，---但是我极其敏锐地意识到，在这屋子里，再没有人比我对于这表演更为肝肠欲断的了。

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You use heartrending to describe something that causes you to feel great sadness and pity.