Unpromising
[ʌn'prɒmɪsɪŋ] or [ʌn'prɑmɪsɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment; 'faced an unpromising task'; 'music for unpromising combinations of instruments' .
埃琳娜整理--From WordNet
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unlucky, untoward, ill-omened, not encouraging, not promising.
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解釋/意思:
adj. not promising or affording a good prospect of success &c.—v.t. Unprom′ise to revoke a promise.—adj. Unprom′ised not promised.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Agnes said she was afraid I must have given her an unpromising character; but Dora corrected that directly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Miserly too, my dear; which is far the most unpromising for us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Sydney Carton, idlest and most unpromising of men, was Stryver's great ally. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- There was, at times, a want of spirits about him which, if it did not denote indifference, spoke of something almost as unpromising. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- To diminish the number of those who are capable of paying it, is surely a most unpromising expedient for encouraging the cultivation of corn. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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