扼腕，一词是从史实中留下来的词语。是用手掐住的意思；自己以一手握持另一手腕部。形容思虑、愤怒、激动等心理活动，是书面语言。
许多人为国会“超级委员会”没能就预算达成协议而扼腕叹息。
Many people are lamenting the failure of the Congressional "Super Committee" to come up with an agreement on ways to reduce the runaway federal deficits.
但这里还有个自制力和品位的问题，我为它们从美国社会消亡而扼腕。
But there is also the matter of self-restraint and good taste, and I lament their passing from American society.
那一次胜利以及两年前赢得的欧洲杯结束了那些让人扼腕的反复失败。
That and the European win two years before put an end to a sorry pattern of underachievement.
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