Je was op zoek naar: consternarse (Spaans - Engels)

consternarse no es suficiente
to be dismayed is not enough

señor presidente, lo que está ocurriendo es para consternarse.
mr president, what is happening is extremely distressing.

es difícil evitar consternarse por la persistencia de elevadas tasas de victimas y la percepción de inseguridad a pesar de varios intentos de reforma política.
it is difficult to avoid getting dismayed by the persistently high rates of victimization and perception of insecurity despite the various attempts at policy reform.

y cuando me venían a ver en vez de consternarse por lo que veían -- yo era como un fantasma viviente -- se sentían muy conmovidos a hablar de lo que les estaba pasando en sus propias vidas.
and when people came to me, rather than being incredibly turned off by what they saw -- i was like a living ghost -- they were incredibly moved to talk about what was going on in their own lives.

¿hay que reír o consternarse de este giro final en el cual el aspecto pintoresco y casi turístico del paseo al borde del mar rivaliza con la brutalidad de los hechos? tal vez el suceso no reside en los contenidos de lo que se nos relata sino en el hecho de que, ante lo expuesto, podamos esbozar una sonrisa.
should we laugh or should we cry at the final twist in which the picturesque, almost touristic, aspect of this stroll along the seafront is at odds with the brutal reality of the facts? such news in brief might perhaps be defined not in terms of the content it communicates to us but more by the fact that we are able to treat it lightly.