“I didn’t have a clue of what Leonardo wanted,” she says of the daunting assignment, “so I became a student of Leonardo, and tried to embody a number of characteristics of his work.”

“我当时对达·芬奇要表达的思想一无所知，”谈到这项让人望而却步的任务时她说，“于是我成为达·芬奇的学生，并努力体现他的作品的各种特点。”

Nevertheless, learning Chinese culture and passing it on to the next generation is too daunting a task for the yearly campaign to accomplish.

不过中华文化的传习，似乎不是一年一次的运动所能办到的。

Where to Start LookingA large complex program like the Linux kernel can be rather daunting to look at

从哪里入手阅读象Linux核心代码这样的复杂程序令人望而生畏。

“But things were different for beginners. “For beginner exercisers, mirrors can be daunting ,” she said.”

但是这对于初学者来说就不一样了。她说:“镜子会令初学者感到畏惧。”

If the timing had been different, the distance less daunting and my heart not already--albeit unknowingly--engaged, I could have ended up with that man whom I went off to visit. Or if not him, then with someone else.

假如换一个时间，距离没这么远，我还尚未心有所属--尽管是不知不觉地--我可能最终会与那个我飞去见面的男人生活在一起;要是不是他，也可能是另外一个男人。

Although setting up user-level security on most databases can be a daunting task, the User-Level Security Wizard makes it easy to employ innovative security features for your Access database? in a one-step process.

尽管在很多数据库上设置用户级安全机制将是一个令人发怵的工作，但“设置安全机制向导”使这一过程变得容易，它可以通过一步操作来为 Access 数据库?采用全新的安全功能。

At the beginning, just taking notes on lectures and finishing the reading on time were daunting challenges

每学期有期中和期末考试，还要提交两篇论文，开始时就连听课时记笔记和按时完成阅读都是令人望而生畏的挑战

The tests before the United States as it heads toward the twenty-first century are certainly daunting

美国迈向21世纪所面临的考验肯定是严峻异常。

When you are buckling yourself into your seat at the start, the ride does not seem so daunting

起初你把自己扣牢在座椅上的时候，会觉得乘坐这台游艺机似乎并不那么可怕。

Unchecked violence has already dulled the luster of the big apple. The daunting task before its leaders is to prevent it from rotting to the core.

肆无忌惮的暴力已经使绰号为大苹果的纽约黯淡无光了。领导人面临的令人气馁的任务是防止它腐烂到中心。

Heavy-weights like Sotheby’s or Christie’s may seem daunting to outsiders, but one made its reputation selling books and the other sold horses at a time when the business had the social status of selling second-hand cars

像索斯比或克里斯蒂斯这样的拍卖业大腕，对局外人来说，也许名声很吓人。但他们一个是以拍卖书籍闻名，另一个以拍卖马匹闻名，而那时候，做这种生意，其社会地位就和卖二手汽车没什么两样。

The prospect of meeting the President is quite daunting .

一想到要会见总统就足以令人心悸.

Inserting an invisible zip is a process that some would find daunting but it is also only a basic joining operation.

装隐形拉链是一道让人觉得麻烦的工序,但这也是一道基本的缝纫工序。

||1: But the biggest damage could be political. ||2: Proposed dams on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra, Mekong and other rivers are bound to have an impact on downstream countries, including India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. ||3: The Chinese say they would take only 1% of the run-off from the giant Brahmaputra. ||4: But if all these projects were operational—and the engineering challenges of one or two of them are so daunting that even the Chinese might balk at them—they would affect the flow of rivers on which a billion people depend. ||5: Hence the worries for regional stability. ||6: And all this would increase China’s water supplies by a mere 7%. ||7: The water crisis is driving China to desperate but ultimately unhelpful measures.

||1:不过，最大的危害可能是政治上的。||2:计划在雅鲁藏布江、湄公河以及其他河流上游建造的大坝必定会对下游国家产生影响，包括印度、孟加拉国和越南。||3:中国方面说他们仅从广阔的雅鲁藏布江中调取1%的水量。||4:但是如果所有的项目都开始运转——其中一两个工程上的挑战就会令人沮丧，届时中国可能予以回避——这将影响傍河而生的10亿人口。||5:从而导致地区稳定上的隐忧。||6:而所有这些工程仅增加中国供水量的7%。||7:水资源危机迫使中国孤注一掷，而终究未必治本。

||1: Acknowledging defeat will not be easy. ||2: The next presidential race will probably attract a more daunting field of candidates, leaving little room for a man who will then be 72 and whose House career ended in censure and disgrace. ||3: In stump speeches he has traced the origins of his presidential aspirations back to 1958, when he was 15 years old. ||4: In the early 1990s he described himself as an “advocate of civilisation, definer of civilisation, teacher of the rules of civilisation…leader (possibly) of the civilising forces.” Or possibly not.

||1:承认失败并不容易。||2:下一次的总统竞选，将吸引更多富有实力，令人望而却步的候选人，这样一来，留给这位72岁，其议会生涯在谴责和耻辱中结束的男人的空间所剩无几。||3:在政治演说中，他曾经追忆他想当总统的起源，当时是1958年，他只有15岁。||4: -20世纪90年代早起，他形容自己是一个“文明的倡导者，文明的定义者，文明规则的教授者.....文明力量的领袖（大概吧）”. 看来事实并非如此。

||1:For a less daunting take on the same topic, readers should try “Massive”, an entertaining yarn published in 2010 by Ian Sample, science correspondent for the Guardian, a London newspaper.||2:Mr Sample also tracked down many of those involved, including Mr Higgs.||3:But Mr Close’s magisterial work is sure to become the definitive account of the story.||4:It offers no unambiguous advice to the Nobel committee.||5:But the judges would be wise to give it a thorough read anyway.

||1:接受同一主题不是那么令人望而生畏，所以读者应该试看一下《大规模》，这本2010年出版的书富有娱乐性，作者是伦敦报纸《监护人》的科学记者伊恩·桑普尔。||2:桑普尔还追踪了许多有关人士，包括希格斯。||3:但克罗兹的权威性著作肯定会成为这个故事的决定性说法。||4:本书不会给诺贝尔委员会提供明确的建议。||5:但不管怎样这些审鉴人彻底地读一读本书将是明智之举。

||1: Mr Trichet is right, but only up to a point. ||2: The sheer scale of European’ banks’ funding needs (about 1.7 Euro trillion, or 2.5 dollor trillion, in the next three years) is daunting : an idea from Morgan Stanley, to use the EFSF to offer European guarantees on new bank debt, has gained traction recently. ||3: And illiquidity is a symptom of concerns about solvency. ||4: So Ms Lagarde is right that strengthening banks’ buffers is important. ||5: The July stress tests, which did not allow for sovereign defaults, offer scant guidance. ||6: Using the market price of sovereign bonds, the IMF thinks that European banks could have unrecognised losses of Euro200 billion, meaning lots more capital would be needed. ||7: The EFSF is one sensible source.

||1:特里谢说的没错，但也不完全如此。||2:欧洲各银行的基金需求的绝对规模（在接下来的三年大概1.7万亿欧元，或2.5万亿美元）让人瞠目：摩根史坦利的想法是用欧洲金融稳定机构（EFSF）在新的银行债务上作为欧洲担保，最近该想法获得青睐。||3:而且非流动性是对偿还能力担心的一个特征。||4:因此，拉加德认为加强银行的缓冲是非常重要，这样的观点是正确的。||5:7月份的压力测试，因为没有考虑到主权违约，缺乏指导意义。||6:国际国币基金组织认为，如果采用国债的市场价格，欧洲银行看不到的损失将达到二千亿欧元，这意味着需要更多的资金。||7:欧洲金融稳定机构（EFSF）则是一个明智的资金来源。

||1:Such schemes are fine in normal times, but do not do much to reassure people that their deposits won’t be repaid in a different currency (or that their money will be safe if their own government cannot stand behind the scheme).That has prompted calls for a European insurance fund which would guarantee repayment in euros.||2:The idea is appealing, but the politics and logistics of a credible guarantee are daunting .

||1:这样的计划在一般情况下是没有问题, 但要使人们相信他们的存款不会通过另一种货币来偿还则作用不大.(如果他们的政府都无法支撑起这样的计划, 他们也就很难相信他们的存款是安全的). 这就使得必须有一种欧洲保险基金能够担保在存款偿付时使用欧元。||2: 这种想法是十分吸引人的, 但实施一项可信的担保计划涉及的政治事务和组织工作却令人望而生畏。

“A third of the world’s population already lives in dry lands, ” said Fedoroff. “The shape of the future is pretty daunting . ”

“目前，世界上三分之一的人口生活在干旱的土地上，”费多罗夫说，“未来的情形是非常艰难的。”

“The aim is to develop an approachable brand for consumers who otherwise find lawyers and their fees daunting . ”

“我们的宗旨是建立一个随处可见的品牌，让顾客不再感到找律师麻烦，律师费高昂。”

It sounds like a daunting amount, but if you think about it mathematically, it’s actually very manageable.

10000小时看起来似乎是个令人望而却步的数值，不过，如果你细加思量，这完全是可以控制和完成的。

Arab dictators have proven resilient in the face of similarly daunting challenges.

阿拉伯国家的独裁者们在面对类似艰巨的挑战时，往往表现得极有韧性。

Dark energy is a more daunting problem still.

暗能量依旧是一个更加令人却步的问题。

Eight teams of interviewers, one male and one female, were faced with that seemingly daunting task.

八个分别由一男一女组成的面试小组承担了这项看似艰巨的任务。

Brazil faces daunting inequality, both between its poorer north and more developed south and within its vast cities.

巴西则面临着令人失望的不平等现象，不论是贫困的北部和较发达的南部或是庞大的城市中都同样存在。

Beijing’s TV towers are the two most daring, and daunting , new buildings in the city.

北京电视塔的双塔结构是两座最吓人的新塔。

Compare the petite Chihuahua with the daunting Great Dane, or the lithe greyhound to the poofy Pomeranian.

比较大戴恩的艰巨，或柔软灰狗到poofy波美拉尼亚娇小的奇瓦瓦州。

It is not only Meyer’s heroine who found Volterra daunting .

不仅仅是梅尔的女主角发现了沃尔泰拉的令人生畏。

Whether at a local gym or getting ready for a game at school, time in the locker room can be daunting for any guy.

不论是在本地的健身房，还是在学校换衣服准备参加比赛，更衣室能让任何男孩都感到胆怯。

These things can seem daunting to try to change.

尝试着改变这些信念可能令人害怕。