Slough of Despond

基本解释

Well, you dropped Linton with it into a slough of despond.
好呀，你把林惇和这样的消遣一起丢入了‘绝望的深渊’啦。
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But even by their usual gloomy standards, Britons seem to have got themselves into a slough of despond of late.
但即便依据英国人正常的悲观标准的话，最近英国人似乎陷入了绝望的境地。
We were in the Slough of Despond tonight, and Mother came and pulled us out as Help did in the book. We ought to have our roll of directions, like Christian.
我们今晚本来处于'绝望的深渊'，妈妈像书中的'帮助'一样来把我们拉了出去，我们应该像基督教徒一样有几本指导手册。

That period of exuberance followed a long stretch in the 1970s and 1980s when investors were in a slough of despond.
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As the overblown optimism wears off and the hopes of JK Rowling-like status evaporate, so the slough of despond will take a hold.
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Still, it seems unlikely that either Mr Thompson or Mr Huckabee possesses the necessary heft to pull their party out of the slough of despond.
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