| 词汇 | unpromising |
| 释义 | unpromising adjective uk /ʌnˈprɒm.ɪ.sɪŋ/ us /ʌnˈprɑː.mɪ.sɪŋ/ Something that is unpromising does not show any signs that it will be enjoyable or successful: 前景不妙的；没希望的 The car broke down, which was an unpromising start to the holiday.汽车坏了，这个假期刚一开始就前景不妙。 not producing a desired result unsuccessfulOur attempts to change the law were unsuccessful. failedThe company went bankrupt pouring money into yet another failed product. badSales have been really bad this quarter. fruitlessAll our pleas that she remain in university were fruitless - she left anyway. unfruitfulThe negotiations were unfruitful. Unsuccessful (people and things) abortive abortively achiever be dead in the wateridiom bootless fruitlessly fruitlessness frustrated futile futilely on the rocksidiom on the ropesidiom redemption rope small-time up and downidiom vain vainly washed up you and whose army?idiom Examples of unpromisingunpromising In a sense, the density theorem says that any convergent method must be ultimately exhaustive, though it may delay the detailed exploration of unpromising regions. Unable to decide one way or another, congressmen hesitated over this unpromising situation. Injunctions may seem an unpromising model for the criminal law. In the unpromising political climate of the early 1920s, both groups sought in workers' education a way of promoting social advance. However, we are encouraged that identifiable macrofossil material may be found at high palaeolatitude, even in unpromising tectonic settings. This seems a most unpromising avenue to explore. In some ways, this is an unpromising subject. In other words, this was a group of people who in the normal educational system would have been viewed as very unpromising material indeed. This at first looks unpromising, but it is soon apparent that the velocity field due to the image sources themselves does not satisfy (4.14). No macrofossils were found and the unpromising lithology discouraged systematic sampling for microfossils. From the very beginning the signs were unpromising. On this occasion, rumours proved to be groundless, but the public reacted promptly to unpromising events. From this unpromising start, the story apparently went, the young parvenu founded a great people. Conversely, advocacy groups may bypass or overlook opportunities in venues that they have dismissed as unpromising. Good efficiency is obtained by pruning off unpromising paths. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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