Even Mark Twain, a man who enjoyed a hearty laugh, said that when it came to photographic portraits there could be "nothing more damning than a silly, foolish smile fixed forever".
就连乐于开怀大笑的马克吐温也说,当谈到人像照片时,“没有什么比一个又傻又蠢的微笑被永远定格更可怕的了”。
Her report is expected to deliver a damning indictment of education standards.
人们预料她的报告会对教育标准予以强烈谴责。
The way they swarm or flock together does not usually get good press coverage either: marching like worker ants might be a common simile for city commuters, but it's a damning, not positive, image.
它们蜂拥或聚集在一起的方式通常不会得到媒体的正面报道:城市的通勤者往往会被比喻成像工蚁一样行进,但这种比喻是一个不佳的、负面的形象。
Its conclusions were very damning for Netherton.
其结论对内瑟顿非常不利。
Even what may appear as a benign intervention on the surface can have damning consequences.
表面上看似有利的干预,却有可能造成毁灭性的灾难。
THE human race has spent millennia celebrating, damning and defying old age.
人类数千年来都在庆祝老年人的长寿,同时也咒骂衰老,抗拒衰老。
Two weeks ago the influential International Crisis Group issued a damning report against sanctions.
两个星期前,极具影响力的国际危机组织发表了一份强烈谴责制裁的报道。
The authors' findings are damning -- but they may not be completely conclusive, according to another recent study.
该报告的发现简直是毁灭性的——但从近期的另一份研究看来,现在还不是盖棺定论的时候。
How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering -waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.
我们焦躁不安地在车厢里踱来踱去,诅咒火车的迟缓——等啊等,等待进站的那一刻。
How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering - waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.
我们在车厢过道里烦躁不安地踱来踱去,咒骂火车的磨磨蹭蹭,等待着,等待着,等待着火车进站的时刻。
Of course, the problems are not damning; they're problems that reflect the progress yet needed to be made in insurance.
当然,这些问题并不是非常糟糕的,这些问题反映了,保险行业中还有待改进之处。
I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
我想问她,同样一件事,怎么会有如此丑恶又如此美好,有关于此的文字和故事怎么可以这么具有毁灭性,又同时这么熠熠生辉?
All they record are pulse, respiration, skin temperature, and other signs that may suggest whether someone seems nervous when asked a damning question.
它们所能记录的脉搏、呼吸、皮肤温度和其它信号,只能提示某人在回答一个非常不利的问题时似乎有些紧张。
Despite the seemingly damning assessment of life at Arsenal in his autobiography My Defence, Cole disarmingly admitted that he misses elements of what he left behind in north London.
尽管在他的自传《我的防守》中看起来对在阿森纳的生活大加批判,但是科尔平静地承认自己在离开北伦敦后很想念以前的日子。
In the wake of a damning report published by the World Anti-Doping Agency last fall, Portugalov was suspended from Russian track and field and from his post at Russia's sports research institute.
世界反兴奋剂机构于去年秋天发布了一份措辞严厉的调查报告,波尔图加洛夫随后被暂时逐出了俄罗斯田径领域,丢掉了他在该国体育研究所的职位。
How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.
我们焦躁不安地在车厢里踱来踱去,诅咒火车的迟缓——等啊等,等待进站的那一刻。
How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering-waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.
我们焦躁不安地在车厢里踱来踱去,诅咒火车的迟缓——等啊等,等待进站的那一刻。
How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering — waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.
可是我们如今在过道里不耐烦地来回踱步咒骂虚度的时光——等待着,等待着,等待着火车进站的那一刻。
How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering — waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.
可是我们如今在过道里不耐烦地来回踱步咒骂虚度的时光——等待着,等待着,等待着火车进站的那一刻。
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