--ROY: Well, it struck me as curious ever since I met you, you know, from that very early moment ages ago...that you’re so young, so lovely and so...defeatist ...I mean you, you don’t seem to expect much from life.

--罗伊:好吧。一见到你，你知道，从仿佛数年以前的那一刻起，我就觉得你很奇特……你很年轻，很可爱，而且很……失败主义似的……我是说，你似乎对生活期望不多。

--MYRA: No family opposition?--ROY: Not a speck. Disappointed?--MYRA: It’s too easy. I’m frightened.--ROY: Ha ha ha! Defeatist !--DRIVER: Where to, Sir?

--玛拉:家人不反对?--罗伊:一点也不。失望了?--玛拉:太顺利了。我有点怕。--罗伊:哈，哈，哈!失败主义者!--司机:去哪里，先生?

--MYRA: Oh, you’re so good. You’re so...--ROY: Oh darling, it’s unreal, isn’t it?--MYRA: Yes.--ROY: Shall we wake up suddenly, and find it untrue?--MYRA: Roy, don’t be defeatist .

--玛拉:你太好了，你太……--罗伊:亲爱的，不是真的，是吗?--玛拉:是的。--罗伊:我们会不会突然醒来，发现一切都是假的?--玛拉:罗伊，不要做个失败主义者。

He had been assailed as a coward and a defeatist by his own friends

他被他的朋友们指为懦夫和失败主义者。

His self-confidence was gradually returning and he was managing to shake off his defeatist mood

他到底又渐渐恢复了他的自信力，他摆脱了失败的情绪，振起精神来，转取攻势。

I don’t approve of your defeatist attitude.

我不赞成你这种失败主义的态度.

He failed again and again simply because he had maintained his defeatist attitude.

因为他一直坚持失败主义的态度，所以失败了一次又一次。

Mr Bush can perhaps dismiss the defeatist mood of the elite.

对精英阶层的泄气这样的现象，布什可能能够不屑一顾。

I mean it. If you go into any family gathering with a defeatist attitude you stand very little chance of actually enjoying yourself.

说真的，如果你带着消极的态度参与任何一个家庭聚会，你是不会过得愉快的。

The common thread is that they did not become defeatist or depressed.

他们的共同思路是他们都没有被打败，或者从此变得消沉的。

How has a sleepy, defeatist India suddenly been galvanised into action?

一个昏昏欲睡、失败主义的印度是怎么突然间变得富有行动力？