Only the fear of missing Christmas drove us on, over so many mountains we lost count, through freezing mist and dispiriting drizzle

仅仅是因为怕错过圣诞节，我们才有了动力继续赶路，走过了不计其数的山峦，穿行在冰霜与烦人的雨中。

How dispiriting are the days during which the sun withholds a portion of our allowance of light and warmth. We are more dependent upon these things than is often thought.

碰到阴雨天，太阳不肯赐予我们那一份应得的光和热，这种日子是多么让人沮丧埃我们对光和热的依赖，远远超出了常人的想象。

Our lack of progress is very dispiriting .

我们毫无进展真使人气馁.

The dispiriting task of assessing damage at the Harlow research institute took several days

在哈罗研究所，清点损失的任务令人诅丧，做这项工作费了好几天。

||1: Perhaps most dispiriting of all, virtually none of those interviewed acknowledges responsibility for what was done. ||2: Most of their explanations are variations on “we were only obeying orders”. “What could I do?” “But I helped people, many people!” “I suffered also, you know.” “This was usual then.” ||3: The gassing of 5,000 Kurds in Halabja was, concedes a seemingly upright general, “a political mistake”.

||1:或许最令人气馁的是，事实上没有一个受访者承认对自己的所作所为负有责任。||2:他们的辩解说来道去，大多都是“我们只是在执行命令”，“我有什么办法呢？”“但我还是帮了人的，很多人！”，“你知道的，我也很痛苦。”||3:一名似乎还算正直的将军说，在哈拉布甲用毒气杀害5000名库尔德人的事件，“是一个政治错误”。

What could be more dispiriting than being in pain while feeling trapped at work?

还有什么比在工作中陷入痛苦更令人沮丧的呢？

William Saito, a serial entrepreneur who travels the country encouraging graduates to start new businesses, says he has spent the past five years trying to undo the dispiriting effect of Mr Horie’s fall and punishment on young people.

连环创业者威廉斋藤游遍全国去游说毕业生创业，他说，他过去五年都在尝试解开堀江贵文的失败为年轻人们带来的负面效应。

THIS week’s figures for the euro-zone economy were dispiriting by any measure. An already feeble and faltering recovery has stumbled. Output across the euro area was flat in the second quarter. That followed a poor start to the year when the single-currency club managed to grow by just 0.2%.

无论怎么看，欧元区本周的经济数据都是令人失望的，疲软脆弱的复苏已经摇摇欲坠。第二季度欧元区的GDP增长速度为零，而在此之前的第一季度，这个单一货币组织仅仅实现了0.2%的增长。

The experience was dispiriting for Keynes, who wrote a number of scathing essays in the 1920s, pointing out the risks of the agreement and of the post-war economic system more generally.

这段经历令凯恩斯大失所望，促使他在20年代写了一系列尖锐的文章，从更为宏观的角度，指出了这些协议以及战后经济体系的风险。

The 1999 movie Office Space was maybe the first to capture how alien and dispiriting the office park can be for men.

1999年的电影，《办公室空间》可能是第一部捕捉办公区男人的沮丧和不合适的状态的电影。

A dirty office loo is really dispiriting .

肮脏的办公楼厕所的确会让人失去精气神。

Building up an economy from very low levels is a back-breaking, dispiriting task.

从极低的水平建设一个新的经济体是一件使人力竭、令人沮丧的任务。

But stimulus measures such as temporary tax cuts for households or car scrappage schemes were dispiriting wastes of scarce time and money.

但临时性削减家庭税收或“旧车换现金”计划等刺激措施，则是令人沮丧的对稀缺时间和金钱的浪费。

But even more dispiriting will be the continuing polarisation of American politics.

但是，更令人沮丧的是美国政治的两极化。

For Mr Vajpayee, who once said that his life’s ambition was to see India take its place as a great nation, it must be very dispiriting .

对瓦杰帕伊（Vajpayee）来说，有人曾说他的志向就是看着印度成为大国，这一定让他非常沮丧。

A while ago I had a dispiriting conversation with another eminent European scientist.

刚才，我和另一位著名的欧洲科学家进行了一次令人沮丧的谈话。

Perhaps most dispiriting of all, virtually none of those interviewed acknowledges responsibility for what was done.

或许最令人气馁的是，事实上没有一个受访者承认对自己的所作所为负有责任。

That is a crude characterisation of Lithuania’s dispiriting politics ever since the country regained its independence in 1991.

那正是自1991年这个国家重获独立以来，立陶宛令人沮丧的政治的一个概貌。

Dispiriting research, he says, indicates that MBA students actually become less ethical over the course of their education.

他表示，一些令人沮丧的研究成果表明，在他们受教育期间，MBA学生的伦理水平越来越低。

It is dispiriting that we still face sovereign debt crises and soft patches.

现在，我们仍然面临主权债务危机和“增长疲软期”，这令人沮丧。

Then a dispiriting doubt struck me. What had the man’s name been?

一个令人沮丧的疑问出现了：那个人叫什么名字？

This matters on a personal level, too, and not solely because the destruction of civilisation would be somewhat dispiriting .

这也和个人相关，不仅仅因为文明的破坏使人气馁。

This policy is intended to conserve energy for more important challenges, but getting knocked out does appear to be dispiriting .

这种政策意在为重要比赛保存体力，但出局确实不是什么开心事。

Even as late as the early 1990s, watching television in the Arab world was a dispiriting business.

直到上世纪90年代初，看电视在阿拉伯世界里都还是让人提不起精神的事。

All in all, the record of the past 200 years has been dispiriting .

总而言之，过去200年的历史让人心灰意冷。