And Dorothy, I think one of the things I found most dismaying is some of them said, " Well, we'll step up and vote as an institution if we think there's a problem."

多萝西，我认为我发现最令人沮丧的事情之一是他们中的一些人说，“好吧，如果我们认为有问题，我们将站出来，作为一个机构进行投票。”

She cheered him up, of course, when he gave way; and her heart never misgave her that there might be a doubt which of the two pictures was the more dismaying.

当然，当他屈服时，她鼓励他。她的心从不怀疑这两幅画中哪一幅更令人沮丧。

Friend of my soul, this is terrible, dismaying: it makes one's heart sink, it withers vital energy ... Dear being, I am thine again; thy happiness shall again predominaute over this fleeting tribute to self interest.

我心灵的知己，这太可怕，太令人沮丧了。我的心为之一沉，锐气消磨殆尽… … 亲爱的人儿，我又是你的了，你的幸福又将压倒我这短暂的孤芳自赏。

My mother's friends who suffered depression—and there seemed to be a dismaying number of them—seemed flattened by life, struggling through a fog that descended until they could see no joy, no prospect of pleasure.

我母亲患有抑郁症的朋友——他们的数量似乎令人沮丧——似乎被生活压垮了， 在降临的迷雾中挣扎， 直到他们看不到快乐，看不到快乐的前景。

In spite of dismaying increases in wages, the Adamses still strove to keep a cook; and, as they were unable to pay the higher rates demanded by a good one, what they usually had was a whimsical coloured woman of nomadic impulses.

尽管工资增长令人沮丧，但亚当斯夫妇仍然努力留住一名厨师。而且，由于他们无法支付好人所要求的更高利率，他们通常拥有的是一位异想天开的游牧冲动的有色人种女性。