扫兴

They all stretched forward, and with that she passed brazenly by in the wake of a friend.

这些先生们眨着眼皮，看到那些旋涡般的裙子从狭窄的楼梯脚下过去，他们等了那么长时间，看见她们一个个走过去，却没有认出一个人来，非常扫兴。

Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be bummer too.

鉴于此，他们并不完全需要他们的艺术是让人扫兴。

I enjoyed the picnic very much. The only fly in the ointment was the rude bus-driver who shouted at us.

我非常喜欢这次野餐，唯一扫兴的事是那位对我们大声叫嚷的粗鲁的公共汽车司机。

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。

Don't you find it upsetting to reduce an emotion like love to a chemical equation?

你不认为将爱情这种情感降低为一种化学方程式有些扫兴吗？

I was very enthusiastic about the lecture , but his remark on it chilled me.

我本来很想听讲演，但他的话让我很扫兴。

The incident put a dampener on his birthday party.

这件事使得他的生日晚会很扫兴。

Job losses and weak consumer spending may put a dampener on the euro area's recovery, which Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, has said is set to be modest and bumpy this year.

失业和消费支出的式微对整个欧元区的恢复而言都是一件让人扫兴的事。欧洲央行主席特里谢（Jean-Claude Trichet）认为，今年欧元区的经济复苏之路是缓慢而颠簸的。

This word was a damper , and their conversation died again.

这句话是叫人扫兴，于是他们的谈话又中断了。

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。

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。