使扫兴

"But, much to the disappointment of the crowd, this latter business was broken off by the interposition of the town beadle, who had no idea of permitting the majesty of the law to be violated by such an abuse of one of its consecrated places."

但是，使大家扫兴的是，刑台上的这场表演因遭到镇上差役的干涉而中断，他认为对这祭献之地妄加滥用，是侵犯了法律的尊严，是绝对不能允许的。

I am sorry I must cast a cloud over your happiness but I have some bad news.

很抱歉，我带来了坏消息，肯定使你很扫兴。

I'd rather cut my throat than demoralize you on a day like this.

我情愿割断自己的脖子，也不想在这样的日子使你扫兴。

I hate to disappoint you, but I'm just not interested.

我不想使你扫兴，但我确实不感兴趣。

To make discourage d;dispirit.

使…泄气；使…扫兴

To make discouraged;dispirit.

使…泄气；使…扫兴不适合

All such professors of the several branches of jocularity would have been sternly repressed, not only by the rigid discipline of law, but by the general sentiment which gives law its vitality.

但是，使大家扫兴的是，刑台上的这场表演因遭到镇上差役的干涉而中断，他认为对这祭献之地妄加滥用，是侵犯了法律的尊严，是绝对不能允许的。

It is neither he nor I who rained on your parade.

使你扫兴的，既不是他也不是我。

The sudden downpour put a chill into the picnicker s.

突然落下的倾盆大雨使野餐的人感到扫兴。

The bad weather c**pire with some other unpleasant cause to ruin our picnic.

坏天气加上其他一些不愉快原因使我们的野餐令**为扫兴。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。