Promising beginnings end in grotesque disappointments

充满希望的开端却以古怪的失望而告终。

By chance and by the. choices we make, we leave behind whole other lives we could have lived, full of different passions and joys, different problems and disappointments .

出于巧合也罢，出于我们自己做的选择也罢，我们放弃了我们本可以与其他人过的共同生活，而那些生活中会充满完全不同的情感和欢乐，完全不同的问题和失望。

here was an opportunity of making up for past disappointments .

弗兰兹说道，“这本来倒是可以弥补你过去的失意的一个机会。”

Henry’s address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done.

亨利的话虽然简短，却比几次挫折更有力量，使她彻底认识自己近来想象之荒诞。

The bitter disappointments to follow did not inter this thought

后来的痛苦的失望并没有埋葬这种思想。

In the end the ideals of the girl prevailed over all the disappointments and heartaches that she encountered. It was a good movie with a very positive message. The movie was really worth our money. It’s one of the better films I’ve seen so far this year.

结局时少女的理想战胜她所遭遇的所有失望及悲痛。这是一部有积极寓意的好电影，实在值得我们花钱来看。这是今年我所看过的最好的影片之一。

She felt that she was only undergoing the penalties of genius in these pangs and disappointments of her young career

她觉得，在她年轻的生涯中，这一切折磨和失望，只是她在为自己的天才接受惩罚。

She is a very sensitive person, who takes her troubles and disappointments to heart.

她是个敏感的人,总把烦恼和失望往心里放。

After so many disappointments ,he finds it hard to have faith in quack doctors.

经历多次失望之后，他对江湖医生失去了信心。

Voluntary disclosures must not only praise good news, but also reports the most urgent problems and disappointments of a company.

实行自愿披露原则,除了报告好消息外,也应该报告最严重的问题和公司不尽如人意的地方。

But this world is full of disappointments : the very next day she was sold to the Xues.

谁料天下竟有这等不如意事,第二日,他偏又卖与薛家.

Some of his disappointments were more illusory than real

他的一些失望，与其说是真实的，不如说是虚构的。

Man, said he, depend upon it, if you do not go back, where-ever you go, you will meet with nothing but disasters and disappointments till your father’s words are fulfilled upon you.

他说,我应该看到,老天爷是不会放过我的。"年轻人,"他说,"相信我的话,你若不回家,不论你上哪儿,你只会受难和失望。到那时,你父亲的话就会在你身上应验了。"

He was embitter ed by his many disappointments .

一再失望使他痛苦万状.

In part, that’s because optimists and pessimists deal with the same challenges and disappointments in very different ways.

在某种程度上，这是由于乐观者和悲观者以截然不同的方式对待同样的挑战和失望。

||1:As it happens, Manet’s own style was in part a response to the rise of portrait photography.||2:By the time he was in his 30s it seemed “everybody” wanted such a photograph, himself included.||3:He understood this presented a challenge for painters, and so he set out to make his portraits “boldly strange”, argues Carol Armstrong, an art historian.||4:This show may not be without disappointments , but it offers ample evidence of why Manet is revered.

||1:当时恰逢人物摄影兴起，马内自己的画风多少受此影响。||2:在马内三十多岁那个年代，似乎“每个人”都想要一张自己的照片，马内也不例外。||3:美术史家卡罗·阿姆斯特朗认为，马内深知摄影给画家带来了挑战，于是他打算创作出“大胆而新奇”的肖像画。||4:这次展览可能会有不尽人意之处，但也能充分说明为什么马内如此备受推崇。

The IMF blamed the slower growth in part on what it called "continuing growth disappointments " in developing countries, and a deeper than expected recession in Europe.

国际货币基金组织将增长放缓部分归咎于发展中国家所谓的“增长持续令人失望”，以及欧洲经济衰退超过预期。

MITT ROMNEY: "America’s been patient. Americans have supported this president in good faith. But today the time has come to turn the page. Today the time has come for us to put the disappointments of the last four years behind us."

罗姆尼：“美国一直在耐心等待，美国人也都诚心支持这位总统（指奥巴马）。但今天是时候翻开新的一页，是时候把过去四年的失望抛诸身后了。”

There were some disappointments , however, including technical problems. Audio failures left British star Adele sounding flat in the performance of her song "All I Ask."

然而这次颁奖也有一些失望，包括一些技术问题。音频故障让英国明星阿黛尔在演唱《All I Ask》时听上去平淡无奇。

||In any case, the global data do not bear out the overseas-profit argument. Just as in America, there have been regular disappointments .|| In 2012, according to Citibank, global profits growth was just 2%, compared with initial forecasts of 11%. At the start of 2013 profits were forecast to rise by 12%; the actual increase was 7%.

||无论如何，全球的数据并不支持“海外利润”理论。正如在美国，也已出现了常见的令人失望的结果。根据花旗银行结论，2012年全球利润增长率仅为2%，相比之下，初步预测可是到了11%。||2013年初，利润预测增长12%，但实际增长仅为7%。

Scientists pursue their experiments with dauntless determination, despite repeated failures and disappointments

（科学家均以大无畏的决心从事试验，全不理一再的失败及多次的失望）；

Wu says he came up with his bug-finding breakthrough after a series of career disappointments .

Wu说，他是在经历过一系列的事业低谷之后才想到这个漏洞查找方法的突破点的。

There is also renewed talk in Beijing that North Korea will embrace China-style economic reforms, even after so many past disappointments .

北京还重新有传言称，朝鲜将推行中国式的经济改革，尽管人们在这方面已经多次失望。

Refuse to dwell on the mistakes or disappointments that are sometimes a part of life, instead learn how you can make things better.

不要沉湎于错误和失望中难以自拔，有时它们是生活不可或缺的组成部分，学

Don’t burden or depress those around you by dwelling on your minor aches and pains and small disappointments .

不要老是述说你微不足道的周身疼痛和失望沮丧，给你周围的人增加压力和苦恼。

Yes, privatisation has created short-term disappointments in eastern Europe.

的确，东欧的私有化进程短期内令人失望。

Expect earnings disappointments from multinationals everywhere with big China businesses to increase.

各地的跨国公司以及中国的大型企业的期望值的落空正在蔓延。

The benefit is that you frequently avoid painful disappointments and tough resetting of expectations late in the project.

好处是您经常可以避免痛苦的失望以及在项目的晚期强硬地重新设置预期结果。

The backlash was rooted in the disappointments monetarism caused when it was put into effect almost three decades ago.

货币主义在大约三十年前开始付诸实施，人们对于他的强烈反对来源于他所引起的失望表现。

For all the disappointments , posterity will look more kindly on Tony Blair than Britons do today.

尽管充满失望，但比起现在的英国人，后人会更友好地看待托尼•布莱尔。