1. Most desolating were those evenings the belle-mere had envisaged for them. 最最凄凉的要数婆婆给她们设计的夜晚。
2. Frenchmen, o my countrymen, Let not your enemies, with their desolating doctrines, degrade your souls, and enervate your virtues! 法兰西人,我的同胞啊,不要让你的敌人用那为人唾弃的原则使你的灵魂堕落,令你的美德削减吧!
3. O Frenchmen, O my countrymen, Let not your enemies, with their desolating doctrines, degrade your souls, and enervate your virtues! 法兰西人,我的同胞啊,不要让你的敌人用那为人唾弃的原则使你的灵魂堕落,令你的美德削减吧!
4. Quite apart from the desolating effect that a major deflection of the Gulf Stream would have upon regions, nobody has offered any remotely practical suggestion as to how to accomplish its deflection. 到目前为止,还没有人关于实现墨西哥湾流改道提出远见卓识的建议,更不必说这一洋流的重大改道会对某些地区可能产生的破坏作用。