The letters are heartrending in their attempt to express what they cannot.

那些信令人心碎，因为他们试图用信表达出那些他们无法表达的东西。

It is heartrending to see her.

看到她真让人心碎。

From the diary of one of these unfortunate souls " It's heartrending to see the shameful sins and violence that take place before our eyes."

“亲眼看到可耻的暴力行为令人心碎。”

I have heard story after heartrending story of famine and starvation, of people surviving on trash foraged out of the forest, because there was no food.

我听了一个又一个令人心痛的饥荒与饥饿的故事，人们只能靠从森林里捡的垃圾活命，因为没有吃的。

He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection, and the more, because — as Mephistopheles said of Marguerite — he was not the first.

他知道没有什么悲剧比反省更令人心碎了，而且更多，因为——正如梅菲斯特所说的玛格丽特——他不是第一个。

But perhaps one of the most heartrending experiences was that of the Akune family, divided by the war against each other and against their own identities.

但也许最令人心碎的经历之一是阿久根一家，他们因彼此之间的战争和对自己身份的反对而分裂。

Aside from the heartrending work of recovering the dead, the boat had sunk upside down into soft mud, stirring up fine silt and creating extremely poor visibility.

除了打捞死者这一令人心碎的工作外，船还倒沉在软泥里，搅动着细小的淤泥， 能见度极差。

At first it was sort of heartrending to watch what appeared to be the agony of pulling himself up the stairs until I understood it's just part of life pulling himself up the stairs like that.

刚开始的时候 我看得心痛不已 看着他艰难地拉着自己一步步上楼后来我意识到 这就是生命的一部分 像那样拖着自己上楼梯。

The piano was suddenly silent as Scarlett was overtaken with surprise and embarrassment. Then she hastily blundered into the opening bars of " Jacket of Gray" and stopped with a discord as she remembered how heartrending that selection was too.

接着，她匆忙地唱起《灰夹克》的头几小节来，可是很快便觉得这也太平惨，便草草结束了。