挫败

It's only too natural that he will be thwarted in his ambit s.

他的图谋将遭到挫败是很自然的事。

He hit upon a plan to defeat his antagonist.

他突然想出了一个挫败他的对手的计划。

He crouched there for a long time before he hit upon a plan to defeat his antagonist.

他蹲在那里很长一时间后，突然想出一个挫败他对手的计划。

Though he promises Mangan's sister that he will go to Araby and purchase a gift for her, these mundane realities undermine his plans and ultimately thwart his desires.

虽然他的诺言曼根的姐姐说，他将前往阿拉和购买礼物送给她，这些平凡的现实破坏他的计划，并最终挫败他的欲望。

"Araby" from Dubliners This tale of the frustrated quest for beauty in the midst of drabness is both meticulously realistic in its handling of details of Dublin Life and the Dublin scene and highly symbolic in that almost every image and incident suggests some particular aspect of the theme.

都柏林人》：这则故事主题是在单调乏味的环境包围下对美的追求的挫败，故事既富于现实主义又富于象征主义，现实主义在于它细致入微的描述了都柏林的景观与生活，象征主义在于每一个意象每一件事都暗示着主题的某个方面。

He develops his characters with impressive psychological and sociological insight, observing astutely that "there was something particularly American" about "blaming yourself for bad luck—that resistance to seeing your life as affected by social forces, a tendency to attribute larger problems to individual behaviour." Meyer himself sees these larger forces all too clearly, and it is his portrayal of America's devastated industrial base that is likely to get this novel much attention: You could not have a country, not this big, that didn't make things for itself.

他通过从心理学和社会学的洞察力展开对人物的刻画，准确的观察到"某种美国特征，在遇到不幸时埋怨自己--拒绝正视你的生活被社会压力所影响，这种想法将更大的问题归咎于个人行为"，迈耶自己对群体力量看的很清楚，基于此，他对美国工业挫败的独特见解赢得读者的青睐：你没有拥有一个国家的能力，至少不是这么大的国家，不可能只为自己工作。

Jim Webb, the junior senator from Virginia, who defeated the incumbent Republican George Allen in 2006, is or has been: a best-selling author; a screenwriter (Rules of Engagement, and another in the works); an Emmy-winning documentary producer; the author of a large number of articles and book reviews; an Annapolis graduate; a boxer (he lost a legendary and controversial championship match at Annapolis against Oliver North ); an autodidact who grew up a military man's son and indifferent student but on his own became a passionate reader of history; a first lieutenant and Marine rifle platoon commander with Delta Company in Vietnam, where he won the Navy Cross for heroism (the second-highest award in the Navy and the Marines), the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts; a graduate of Georgetown Law School who then worked on the staff of the House Veterans Affairs Committee; a teacher of English literature at the Naval Academy; and an assistant secretary of defense and then secretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration.

吉姆·韦布曾在2006年挫败现共和党员乔治·艾伦。这位来自弗吉尼亚州的新议员拥有许多头衔：畅销书作者；剧作家（《交战规则》和其他一些作品）；艾美奖获奖纪录片出品人；许多文章和书评的作者；安纳波利斯毕业生；拳击手（他曾经在安纳波利斯的一场传奇而充满争议的冠军杯比赛中败给奥利弗·诺兰）；本事一个军人家庭的平凡学生却自学自修成长为热情洋溢的历史读者；中尉以及越南战役中海军陆战队第四步兵排指挥官，那场战役里他获得了海军英雄主义十字勋章（海军和海军陆战队第二高等奖章）、银星奖章、两枚青铜奖章和两枚紫心勋章；毕业于乔治城法律学校而后就职于退伍军人事务部参谋机构；海军学院英国文学教师；助理国防部长以及里根在任期间的海军部长。

After Walsingham foiled the Babington Plot in 1586, Mary Queen of Scots was executed.

沃尔辛厄姆挫败后的巴宾顿阴谋1586年，苏格兰玛丽女王被处死。

This isn't so much sad as baffling.

这不让我悲伤，更多的是有挫败感。

I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me — perhaps the last.

然而我有意重婚，但命运却挫败了我，或者上天制止了我—一也许是后者。

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