The television news was a daily litany of bombings and killings

电视新闻每天连续不断地报道爆炸和杀戮事件。

A desk at which the litany is recited.

读经台用作诵读祷文的台桌

a litany of praise for the new professor.

对新教授反复称颂

Dr. Middleton bowed to the litany

弥得尔顿博士对这种连祷俯首贴耳。

The European Commission, in its report today, will publish a litany of continued failings in the applicants, from weak border controls to badly managed economies, to cultures of corruption.

欧盟委员会今天发表的报告将会列出一长窜持续申请失败的例子，从边界管制不严格、经济管理不善到贪污腐败盛行等等。

A desk at which the litany is recited.

用作诵读祷文的台桌.

This enriched the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary with some 400 to 500 words from Greek and Latin, including angel, disciple, litany , martyr, mass, relic, shrift, shrine and psalm

由此带来了400到500个希腊和拉丁词，丰富了盎格鲁·撒克逊语，其中包括“天使”，“弟子”，“祈祷”，“烈士”，“弥撒”，“圣物”，“忏悔”，“圣祠”，“赞美诗”。

||1:Inevitably, some important chapters of the crisis get short shrift.||2:The collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers get only a few pages each, which may not matter so much because they have been so thoroughly covered elsewhere.||3:The macroeconomic forces behind the bubble, such as low interest rates at home and abroad, are all but ignored.||4:Indeed, the authors never wander beyond America’s shores.||5:Ms McLean and Mr Nocera, who write for Vanity Fair and the New York Times, have reporters’ penchant for detail.||6:The litany of names, numbers and financial jargon is at times exhausting, even with the help of an eight-page cast of characters and two-page glossary of acronyms.||7:And there are too many pointless, anonymous quotes.

||1:篇幅有限，危机中的某些重头戏不可避免地被简略带过。||2:对贝尔斯登和雷曼兄弟公司崩溃的讨论在书中都只有寥寥几页。不过这样处理也并无不妥，因为它们已经被说烂了。||3:另外，这场泡沫后面的宏观经济因素（如美国国内外的低利率）则完全被忽略掉了。||4:两位作者的关注点始终没有超出美国的范围。||5:麦克里恩女士和诺色拉先生为《名利场》和《纽约时报》撰稿，具有记者对细节的强烈偏好。||6:即使坐着列出了长达八页的人物表和两页的缩略语表，文中对人名、数字和金融术语的罗列有时还是让人吃不消。||7:毫无意义且不知出处的引用也实在太多。

||1:Mr Johnson’s poor handling of the crisis has wrecked the government’s most important asset, its sense of authority.||2:The government may already have lost the public: ratings for “being in charge of the situation” have been negative since May.||3:It is beginning to lose its own party, too.||4:Tory MPS have a litany of complaints about government policies.||5:They especially dislike the insistence that strangers must stay 2m apart when other countries have settled on 1.||6:5m or less, the back-tracking over reopening schools, the decision to quarantine those arriving from abroad for a fortnight, the abolition of virtual voting, which forces MPS to stand in a milelong “conga line” to cast their votes, and the unruly streets, with up to 40 police officers injured in a fortnight of protests and counter-protests.||7:Habitual critics of Mr Johnson ask: what did you expect.

||1:约翰逊对这场危机的处理不力破坏了政府最重要的财富——权威感。||2:政府可能已经失去了公众：自5月以来，“掌握局势”的评级一直是负面的。||3:它也开始失去了自己的政党。||4:保守党议员对政府政策有一连串的抱怨。||5:他们尤其不喜欢在其他国家决定间隔距离1.5米或者更近时，英国坚持要求陌生人之间必须保持2米的距离，不喜欢对重新开学的学校进行反向追踪，不喜欢将那些从国外来的人隔离两周的决定，不喜欢取消虚拟投票，这迫使议员们站在一条长达一英里的“康加线”上投票，也不喜欢不规矩的街道，在两周的抗议和反对抗议中有多达40名警察受伤。||6:约翰逊先生的惯常批评者问:你期望什么？有人说，其他人的心态“比沮丧还要糟糕”。||7:“沮丧意味着你认为可能有出路。

A royal commission has exposed a litany of abuses.

一所皇家调查委员会曝光了一大串滥用罪责。

Few people would have predicted this litany of disasters when Mr Bush ran for the presidency in 2000.

2000年，当布什先生竞选美国总统时，几乎没有人能够预测到他所带来的这一系列的灾难。

Harkham’s thin, descriptive lines bring humanity and soul to a topic that could easily degenerate into a litany of LA and film references.

Harkham的细致的线条使得人道和灵魂轻而易举地融入到一连串的洛杉矶和电影资料中。

For most environmentalists, the answer to that depressing litany is to keep pushing the same message harder: cut carbon and cut it now.

对大多数环保人士来说，絮叨这些令人沮丧的信息相当于雪上加霜：减少碳排放，马上，现在！

The publicity over both stories has prompted a litany of similar confessions.

公众对这两则报道关注引出了一连串类似的供词。

Le provided a long litany of development problems and challenges facing China.

乐连篇累牍地陈述了目前中国面临的发展问题和挑战。

For example, an early Irish litany makes an enigmatic reference to the “seven monks of Egypt” .

例如，一位远古的爱尔兰信徒就曾神秘地提到过“埃及的七位教士”。

Each time I sleep, the litany plays in my dreams and I mourn their brave souls!

每一次我沉睡时，他们的名字总是在我的梦里浮现来让我哀悼他们勇敢的灵魂！

There is no need to repeat the litany of disappointment that such prognostications have produced over the years.

然而现实总是让人失望，数年来，人们已经多次作出过类似的预测。

He said that to me at a time when I was facing a litany of charges of being a spy in Istanbul.

他对我说这番话的时候，刚好是我在伊斯坦布尔遭遇没完没了间谍指控的时候。

Data is a list of temperatures, a litany of recent sales, or an inventory of parts on hand.

温度列表、近期销售状况说明或者库存零部件清单，这些都是数据。

I could list for you a tragicomic litany of all the things I was once mistakenly completely certain about, and I’m sure you can do the same.

我可以为你列举出曾经我错误地完全可以肯定的事物的一系列悲喜剧，我认为你也一定能。

We also made a litany of incremental changes as we went through the process.

我们还在这个进程中做了一系列冗长的的增量式的改变。

One informed observer finds this part of the leaked cable’s analysis far more damning than its litany of public relations slip-ups.

一位知情观察家认为，继续泄漏电函，远远超过一长串咒骂对其公共关系闪失的分析的一部分来的好。

A litany of legal wrangles with US tax authorities over tax evasion and bank secrecy further harmed its reputation.

与美国税务当局就避税和银行保密制度展开的冗长法律争执，进一步损害了这家银行的声誉。

Like all entrepreneurs, Mr Diamond has chalked up a litany of daring moves over the years - a few have backfired, but most have paid off.

与所有企业家一样，戴蒙德这些年来进行了一系列冒险活动——有些亏了钱，但多数都获得了回报。

In most countries that would count as a litany of failure.

在大多数国家的这种局面将被视作中诅咒般的失败。

In February, New Scientist revealed the litany of research projects underway in the field of contact lens enhancement.

在二月份，新科学人杂志报道了有关增强隐形眼镜的研究项目。

After going through the litany of environmentalist propaganda, he tells us, in a menacing tone and with plenty of scowling looks

在经历了枯燥的宣扬环保的布道之后，他用恐吓的音调和满目愁容告诉我们这一切。

Above me, above them, I could make out a low wave of moaning, like the murmur of a congregation at litany in church.

在他们之上，在我之上，我可以听到一声低吟，好像是教堂集会时诵经的声音。

By the time the games kicked off, the city was in much better shape, though a new litany of woes soon appeared.

在运动会开始之时，城市应该可以有一个好得多的面貌，尽管不久之后新的抱怨哀愁又死灰复燃了。