||1:Now a new Franco-British pragmatism is gaining ground.||2:The French have discreetly set aside institution-building and the British have quietly accepted the benefit of modest EU operations.||3:The most visible is Operation Atalanta, the anti-piracy naval patrols off Somalia.||4:Last year an Italian helicopter was sent in to shoot up a pirate supply base.||5:The EU now runs a training mission for Somali forces (based in Uganda), pays for the African intervention force in Somalia and is training neighbouring countries to secure their own coastlines.||6:This has reduced piracy and raised hopes for a better future in Somalia.||7:Some of this is being applied to the Sahel.||8:Apart from training the demoralised Malian army, the EU will help African contingents with money and logistics.||9:It is already training forces in Niger, and may soon help the new Libyan government secure its border.

||1:而今，英法两国重新走上务实路线。||2:一方面，法国谨慎地将建立总部的计划搁浅，而另一方面，英国则默默承认欧盟采取适当军事行动的益处。||3:最明显的一例莫过于驱逐索马里（Somalia）海盗的“亚特兰大行动”（Operation Atalanta）。||4:而去年，欧盟还派出一架意大利直升机，在海盗补给基地上空进行扫射。||5:如今，在索马里冲突问题上，欧盟不但为索马里政府提供军事训练（训练基地位于乌干达（Uganda）），资助非洲军队武装介入消除该冲突，而且还为加强索马里各邻国海岸防线而对其进行训练。||6:欧盟的介入在削弱海盗的同时，也让索马里的前景一片光明。||7:而上述手段现都已投入到马里冲突之中。||8:除了为士气不振的马里政府军提供军事训练外，欧盟还在资金和后勤上援助了数支非洲军。||9:尼日尔的训练基地已投入运营，或许不久后将支援利比亚（Libyan）新政府驻守国境。

||1:A decade ago, teachers in New Orleans were demoralised .||2:The city’s school district had eight different superintendents in the decade to 2005, none of whom managed to curb corruption or control waste.||3:Affluent whites had fled the system: before Katrina New Orleans was roughly 67% black and 28% white, yet only 6% of public-school pupils were not black.

||1:十年前，新奥尔良市的老师士气低沉。||2:市里学校街区竟在2005年之前十年有八个主管，没有人遏制腐败或是控制浪费。||3:富裕的白人则逃离这一系统：在卡特里娜飓风来临之前新奥尔良市有大概67%的黑人和28%的白人，然而只有6%的公公学校的学生不是黑人。

||1:He did some excellent things—restoring confidence to a department he found to be “shockingly” demoralised , including through a renewed emphasis on learning languages and other lapsed skills.||2:He also expanded its operations, opening 20 missions, especially in India and China, the focus of a commercial push.||3:He was also bold, early on, supporting Mr Cameron’s championing of the Arab spring, including the intervention in Libya in 2011.||4:Mr Hague describes their failure to win parliamentary support for strikes on Syria’s regime in 2013 as one of his “worst experiences”.

||1:他做了一些了不起的事：重塑这个他发现道德”惊人“沦丧的部门的信誉，包括重新强调学习语言和其他失效技能的重要性。||2:他还扩大了部门的运作范围，新派出了20个驻外使团，特别是在印度和中国这些商业动力的中心。||3:早些时候，他也十分大胆地支持卡梅伦对阿拉伯之春的拥护，还包括2011年对利比亚的干预。||4:黑格认为他们在2013年没能赢得议会对叙利亚统治下罢工的支持是他”最糟的体验“之一。

||1:Some blame poor work by police demoralised by pay cuts.||2:Mr Maroni wants tougher powers against protests and the mayor has banned marches for a month.||3:Some blame communities of far-leftists who are mostly ex-squatters.||4:One in Turin, called Askatasuna, carried a statement on its website that celebrated mass resistance and “sacred rage” against austerity.

||1:一些人责备警察们因为薪水减少意志消沉，工作做得不好。||2:Maroni先生希望采取更加严厉的措施打击抗议活动，罗马市长下令禁止在该市举行游行，为期一个月。||3:一些人批评了极左势力的人的团体，这些人中的大部分人曾经都擅自占用过别人的土地。||4:都灵的Askatasuna社团在其网站上发表声明支持人们就紧缩措施的反对和“不用质疑的愤怒”。

Samuel Tengbeh, a 28-year-old member of the Liberian team, lost his leg in 1999 during the country’s civil war and long felt demoralised .

28岁的SamuelTengbeh是利比里亚队的队员，1999年在内战中失去一条腿，之后长期消沉。

The army seems demoralised .

巴基斯坦军队似乎已经士气殆尽。

But Greece, as it stands, is a demoralised country that has lost the sense that it controls its own government.

但就目前而言，希腊暮气沉沉，好像已经丧失了管控本国政府的意识。

But his legacy remains a demoralised and debt-crippled country on the brink of needing an international bail-out.

但在下台之际，他遗留下的仍是一个为债务所困的士气低落的国家，处在需要国际纾困的悬崖边。

Mr Blair had also taken charge of a demoralised party, much of it determined not to compromise with the voters.

当时布莱尔领导的党也是士气低沉，党内大部分人认为不应该向选民屈服。

Unloved and demoralised , the bank still has work to do, especially in Africa.

尽管不为人所喜，也让人沮丧，但世行仍有事要做，特别是在非洲。

Despite their strong handshakes and leadership training, businessmen are skittish creatures, easily demoralised and deterred.

尽管商人们握手时坚定有力，而且受过良好的领导力训练，他们仍然是轻浮的生物，很容易临危而退，垂头丧气。

Exhausted and demoralised staff struggle to find space for the wounded and the dead.

精疲力竭而又士气低落的工作人员正努力为那些受伤者和遇难者寻找容身之处。

Demoralised , the bank is also compromised.

让人沮丧的是，世行也受到牵累。

What he found was sliding sales, demoralised staff, ineffective marketing and a lack of leadership.

他调研的结果是销量滑落、员工士气下挫、营销策略低效以及领导能力缺乏等。

One struggling German firm even approached the American embassy seeking "Yes, We Can" buttons to give out to its demoralised workers.

一家在困难中挣扎的德国企业甚至找到美国大使馆试图寻找《是的，我们可以》（“Yes，WeCan”）的纽扣分发给他们丧失信心的员工。

One former foreign minister says "the Quai is genuinely demoralised , because they are totally out of the game. "

一位前外交部长说：“外交部真是丧失斗志，因为他们完全退出了游戏。”

Some blame poor work by police demoralised by pay cuts.

一些人责备警察们因为薪水减少意志消沉，工作做得不好。

The villagers are demoralised , with no electricity or road and a poor crop.

因为没有电和大道，粮食歉收，村民心情低落。

The raid left the force, in the words of one policeman, "demoralised and looking like we could not take a bullet" .

用一位警察的话说，这次袭击使军队“士气低落，看上去好像我们不堪一击。”

Eugene O’Donnell, a former cop and a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says the NYPD is demoralised and is on the verge of

尤金·奥·唐纳以前是一名警察，并且在约翰杰刑事司法大学兼任教授，他认为纽约警察现在士气低落，已经处于衰退边缘。

Demoralised and in disarray, the BNP has just 30 seats in parliament, down from 193 in 2001.

在一片混乱和沮丧中，民族主义党仅仅在议会获得30个席位，低于其在2001年的193个席位。

The demoralised and shrunken entity, now emerging from bankruptcy, may soon have just 10 per cent of the US market.

这家士气低落、规模缩水的企业目前刚刚脱离破产保护，不久可能仅占到美国市场10%的份额。

It was the last thing a demoralised workforce wanted to hear.

这是空客本已士气低落的员工队伍最不愿意听到的事情。