1.没有希望的,前途无望的;结果未必良好的
1.unlikely to be satisfactory or successful
1.But it is hard to think of a better way to fashion a decent stretch of Conservative government from the unpromising result of this election.
但是，很难想出还有什么更好的办法，能够让保守党从这次希望不大的选举结果中，获取更大的胜算。
2.This week's declaration from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was an unpromising start.
本周德国总理安格拉•默克尔（AngelaMerkel）和法国总统尼古拉•萨科齐（NicolasSarkozy）所作的声明，是一个不让人看好的开端。
3.I continued to love all the kittens, but I chose the most unpromising of the kittens as my subject.
我继续爱着所有的小猫，但是我选择了其中一只最不起眼的做我的试验对象。
4.To his way of thinking, confronted by the available options, he had always just pursued the least unpromising.
按他的思维方式，当面前出现选择的机会时，他总是会选最不太会绝望的那种。
5.But when I saw them, just like a as the spirit that did not float down the heads of white catkins also insensitive to really unpromising.
可是我见到它们的时候，像一只只“病猫”一样，一点精神也没有，头上白白的柳絮飘下来还无动于中，真没出息。
6.There was, at times, a want of spirits about him which, if it did not denote indifference, spoke of something almost as unpromising.
他有时候没精打采的，如果不是表示态度冷淡的话，就说明前景有点不妙。
7.Unpromising people do not work; people do not study and did not progress.
人不劳动没出息，人不学习没长进。
8.From the most unpromising of starts, he ended up with a far more impressive record, at least in electoral terms, than George H W Bush.
从一个暗淡无光的开端，走到无比辉煌的终点，至少就选举纪录来说，他远胜于老布什。
9.Behind this repetitious and unpromising pattern lay a history of disappointment at the hands of the key men in her life.
在重复、没希望的规律下面是一段失望史，造成的是在她一生中关键的男人们。
10.an unpromising beginning to the relationship.
该关系从开头来看不象会有什么前途