惨淡的

Although they may have been cheaper and more durable, both the original AstroTurf and its second-generation imitations failed dismally to reproduce the bounce and forgiving nature of grass.

尽管人造草坪又便宜又耐用，但是原版的阿斯特罗草皮和它的二代仿造品都因为无法具有天然草皮的弹性和良好的柔韧型，因此销量惨淡。

At Ford it was the Edsel, a clunker-car with contrasting tail-fins and unlovely squarish styling, which sold only 68,045 in 1958, its first year, and 47,496 in its second, until he killed it in favour of the smaller, cheaper Falcon. At the Pentagon, where he arrived in 1961 with 99 topics for evaluation, he found a budget of $55 billion that had to be trimmed by bringing in systems analysis and five-year plans.

在福特，他栽在了埃德塞尔——这尾部扎眼，四方格调令人生厌的破车——之上，1958年首次推出销量仅为68，045，第二年也更是惨淡到了47，496；直到更经济更小巧的&苍鹰&问世，他才封杀埃德塞尔。1961年他进驻国防部，面对99个需要尚待商讨的问题，却发现只能通过导入系统分析，实行五年计划加以缩减，预算才能回顾550亿美元之水准。

Perhaps another limit is the student forever also could not change, is the sex, the body higher physiology condition request, honest said this aspect female student's bitter experience had also to have to be drearier than the male student, were very many with the human unit unintentional manufacture sex difference, got employed for the university student has established the giant barrier, fundamentally said discriminates against the female.

另一个限制恐怕是学生永远也改变不了的，就是性别、身高等生理条件的要求，坦白的说这方面女生的遭遇要比男生还要惨淡，很多用人单位有意无意的制造着性别差异，给大学生就业设置了巨大的障碍，从根本上说就是歧视女性。

Britain's banking industry, which has just reported dreadful results, will not welcome a state-owned mortgage lender galumphing around, luring depositors into government-backed deposit accounts (gilts in all but name, yet offering fatter rates) and using that advantage when it lends.

刚刚公布了惨淡业绩的英国银行业不会欢迎一家国有的抵押贷款机构在一旁虎视眈眈，将存款人的资金吸引到由政府担保的存款帐户（跟金边债券无异，利息回报却更高），并利用这一优势发放贷款。

The same sort of ambiguity—about whether the woe is just beginning or petering out, will be mercifully brief or utterly ruinous—clouds the economic news too.

同样让人心惶惶的是关于经济方面的消息___目前的惨淡状况只是开始还是即将要消失了，只是暂时的侥幸还是完全具有毁灭性的呢？

The same sort of ambiguity—about whether the woe is just beginning or petering out, will be mercifully brief or utterly ruinous—clouds the economic news too.

同样让人疑虑的是经济方面的消息，惨淡状况是始是终，是暂时的侥幸逃脱还是完全的毁灭呢？

The same sort of ambiguity—about whether the woe is just beginning or petering out, will be mercifully brief or utterly ruinous—clouds the economic news too. Take the banks.

同样让人心惶惶的是关于经济方面的消息___目前的惨淡状况只是开始还是即将要消失了，只是暂时的侥幸还是完全具有毁灭性的呢？

Efforts to somehow evade these costs are fruitless, as has been demonstrated by the dismal performance of pawnshops owned and managed by various government entities in Europe and Mexico.

逃避这些费用都是徒劳无益的，在欧洲和墨西哥，各种政府实体拥有和管理的当铺们的惨淡表现就是一个很好的证明。

An unusually weak Dungeness crab harvest is compounding the financial woes of West Coast fishermen who were already struggling with depressed consumer demand and the unprecedented collapse of the Pacific Chinook salmon fishery.

一次很不寻常的太平洋大蟹欠收伴着经济惨淡向西海岸的渔民袭来。这些渔民正在经历低迷的消费需求和太平洋大鳞大麻哈鱼业空前的倒闭境况。

An unusually weak Dungeness crab harvest is compounding the financial woes of West Coast fishermen who were already struggling with depressed consumer demand and the unprecedented collapse of the Pacific Chinook salmon fishery.

邓杰内斯蟹数量不寻常的惨淡使得西部沿海渔民的经济情况更加复杂。他们正遭遇消费低谷期，而且太平洋奇努克鲑鱼的打捞数量也前所未有的少。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了