The crime rate is depressingly high

犯罪率太高,令人忧心忡忡

Today he sees the behaviour as depressingly ordinary

今天他认识到他的行为是令人沮丧而毫无意义的。

||Yet there are still parts of the world where it is not safe to be homosexual. Extra-judicial beatings and murders are depressingly common in much of Africa and in some Muslim countries.|| African gangs subject lesbians to “corrective rape”. In some countries persecution has intensified. Chad is poised to ban gay sex. Nigeria and Uganda have passed draconian anti-gay laws (though a court recently struck Uganda’s down). Russia and a few other countries have barred the “promotion” of homosexuality.

||1:然而，世界上仍有一些地方对同性恋是不安全的。||2:司法外的殴打和谋杀在许多非洲和穆斯林国家都非常普遍。||3:非洲集团倾向对女同性恋”纠正强奸”。||||4:在一些国家迫害不断的加剧。乍得将禁止同性恋。||5:尼日利亚和乌干达已经通过了严格的反同性恋的法律（尽管法庭最近驳回了乌干达）。||6:俄罗斯和其他一些国家已经禁止“促销”同性恋。

Without further improvement, employment growth in Africa’s formal sector will remain depressingly stunted.

然而，在没有进一步改善的情况下，非洲正规部门的就业增长将依旧呈现出令人失望的受阻态势。

Depressingly familiar

郁闷的熟悉感

In a routine that is becoming depressingly familiar, Mr Obama’s camp argues that the time for these things is not yet ripe.

按照非常熟悉的老套路，奥巴马先生的阵营辩称，做这些事情的时机还没有成熟。

But a lot is going depressingly wrong in politics.

但令人沮丧的是，在政治方面却采取了许多错误的行为。

But the two fields graced by Curie remain depressingly male.

但令人郁闷的是，居里夫人获奖的两个领域仍是男性的天下。

The magazine ceased printing in 2003, and its web presence is depressingly bland.

但是这本杂志在2003年停止出版实体书，它的网页也显得沉闷无味。

To seasoned observers of the electronics industry, the promise of wireless recharging sounds depressingly familiar.

对电子工业的老牌观察家们来说，无线充电的承诺听上去非常熟悉。

Worse, if that feeds into expectations the world will be depressingly similar to the 1970s.

更糟糕的是，如果上述情况成为期望，世界将会同70年代非常相似。

Much of the story is depressingly familiar: how Indian misrule and a rigged election provoked protests and then, from 1989, insurgency.

故事的大部分情节都熟悉得令人沮丧：印度如何施暴政、非法操纵选举、激起抗议，之后，自1989年起发生暴动。

These trend-lines in Darfur have become depressingly familiar over the past few years.

过去几年来达尔富尔的这种趋势变得令人沮丧地熟悉。

Besides, they were always so depressingly enthusiastic.

还有哇，他们总是热情的让人郁闷。

It is a depressingly familiar scenario, a cycle of provocation and reprisal that periodically escalates into full-blown war.

局势一直不容乐观，而一轮又一轮的挑衅和报复行动将局部冲突升级为全面战争。

Depressingly few politicians or other public figures in Russia even recognised her dilemma.

可悲的是，俄罗斯很少有政治家和公众人物能认同她的这种思想斗争。

Depressingly , he finds few grounds for optimism.

令人沮丧的是，他发现情况很不乐观。

Instead of policies that are minimally intrusive, well-targeted and efficient, we are depressingly likely to get the exact opposite.

令人沮丧的是，我们看到的可能不是侵犯性最小、目标明确和行之有效的政策，而是恰恰相反。

Depressingly , planning approval has apparently been given to 100 more towers.

令人沮丧的是，显然，获得规划批准还有100座大厦将要兴建。

Depressingly , these market-distorting shenanigans are part of a pattern.

令人沮丧的是，这些扭曲市场的诡计成了潜规则。

Rather depressingly , late-night talkshow host David Letterman outshines the sun in his effect on what people are doing.

令人郁闷的是，深夜脱口秀节目主持人大卫•莱特曼（DavidLetterman）对人们行为的影响甚至比太阳还要大。

Europe’s political leaders react to these unwelcome expressions of popular will in three depressingly familiar stages.

欧洲领导人对于群众这样不太尽如人意的举措一般会采取三阶段的反应。

Jobs are depressingly scarce for recent high school and college graduates.

为刚刚毕业的高中生和大学生提供的工作极少。

Britain has a depressingly large number of NEETs, young people who are not in education, employment or training.

英国存在相当多的啃老族（不上学，不工作，不去培训的人）。

The number of men who rape, who cheat, who act out in countless other sexually compulsive and destructive ways is depressingly high.

有大量的男士实施强奸，不忠，数不尽的性强迫与性侵害情况糟得令人沮丧。

There has been a power struggle over this succession too, but the outcome is depressingly easy to read.

这次的继承也有一次权力斗争，但是很难简单的读到结果。

The list is a depressingly long one. They all seemed like sensible ideas at the time, although with hindsight they were obvious duds.

这个单子长得让人压抑，它们当时看起来似乎都是明智的点子，但回想起来就觉得毫无新意。

The country may be entering a period depressingly familiar to Americans

这个国家正在进入一个美国人很熟悉的萧条时期。

That makes the sight of small, skinny children depressingly routine.

这或能解释人们对于小小个又瘦骨如柴的儿童已见怪不怪。

This helps explain the depressingly slow decline in unemployment rates and in the number of workers who have given up looking for jobs.

这也解释了为什么失业率和放弃再就业的工人数量只是在令人沮丧地小幅度下降。