英语释义

• appearing to be unlikely to result favorably or be enjoyable;

  "faced an unpromising task"

  "music for unpromising combinations of instruments"

片语

futureless没有前途的；没有希望的

英汉例句

• behind this repetitious and unpromising pattern lay a history of disappointment at the hands of the key men in her life.

  在重复、没希望的规律下面是一段失望史，造成的是在她一生中关键的男人们。

• fishing, journalism, and the death throes of the swedish social system are the unpromising ingredients of andrew brown’s thought-provoking autobiographical memoir.

  在安德鲁?布朗的发人深省的自传体小说中描述了许多社会方面，如前途未卜的瑞典渔业、新闻业以及挣扎于死亡边缘的社会制度。

• from buying shares, it was but a small step to purchasing whole businesses and one of these, an unpromising textile mill called berkshire hathaway, became the basis for his current fortune.

  尽管购买股票只是买下整个企业过程中的一小步，他仍通过这样的方式拥有了一家叫做berkshirehathaway的企业，而正是这家前景暗淡的纺织厂成了巴菲特如今财富的基础。

• tintin was born in this unpromising environment, in a weekly children’s supplement, le petit vingtième.

  丁丁产生于一个看不到希望的环境-—每周的儿童增刊lepetit vingtième。

• yet in this unpromising setting, some positive signs are visible.

  但在这种绝望的环境下，我们仍可见到一些积极的迹象。

• they have fallen into a painful situation—「putting their limited lives into getting rid of numerous unpromising stocks」. 「avoid the stock market like poison」 has become their heartfelt cry.

  股民们曾经的梦想一再破灭，他们陷入「用有限的生命投入到无限的解套」的苦况，「远离股市，远离毒品」成为他们发自内心的呼喊。

• yet it was from this unpromising soil that the modern, scientific world-view bloomed.

  然而，后来科学世界观之花从这片贫瘠的土地上盛开了。

• and we do, driving off the ferry into an unpromising industrial area – a bit like the isle of dogs with palm trees.

  果然平安到达了，巴士驶下渡船到了一个死气沉沉的工业区，有点像长了棕榈树的伦敦东区。

• most of those planets are more massive than saturn, which makes them unpromising from a habitability standpoint—such giants tend to be gaseous bodies without a surface to walk on.

  大部分这些行星的体积比原本体积较大的土星还要大，这使得它们都不太适宜人类居住——因为这些体积巨大的行星往往都是气体行星，像土星一样没有可供行走的固态表面。

• from the most unpromising of starts, he ended up with a far more impressive record, at least in electoral terms, than george h w bush.

  从一个暗淡无光的开端，走到无比辉煌的终点，至少就选举纪录来说，他远胜于老布什。

• even the most unpromising rooms in mr bryson’s rectory provide food for thought, such as the miserable provision made for the servants, an all but invisible presence in the grand old days of yore.

  即使在布莱森先生家里最不起眼的房间，也有能引人深思，比如做给仆人们的寒碜的食物，虽然微不足道，但也尽显昔日的气派。

• graydon smith「s career in contract law is off to an unpromising start.

  在合同法中的事业终止于一个毫无未来的开端。

• unpromising material, but then france」s dame or homme de fer does not need to be quite as ironclad as the former british prime minister.

  有形条件希望渺茫，但是这样一来法国的铁夫人或铁男人却无需像英国前首相那般强硬。

• tintin was born in this unpromising environment, in a weekly children's supplement, le petit vingtieme.

  丁丁就是在这种毫无希望的环境中诞生的，最初刊载于二十世纪报的每周儿童副刊上。

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