cold comfort

cold comfort

美 　英

• n.于事无补的安慰；不起作用的慰藉
• 网络不起作用的安慰；冷安慰；简直不起作用的安慰

英汉双解

英汉解释

英英解释

例句

John failed the exam, it was cold comfort to him to be told that he could take a make-up exam next semester.

约翰考试不及格，告诉他下学期可以补考只是徒增他的烦恼而已。

Of course, the Fed is still likely a year or more away from implementing an exit strategy, but even that's cold comfort.

当然，时距美联储采行退场策略可能还有一年，甚或更长的时间，但并无法令人感到安心。

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?

那么他们是否让您用自己的英雄换成鬼魂？热灰换成树木？炽热的空气换成冰冷的微风？漠然的舒适换成改变？

Just as we're losing Dr. White, we readers are rewarded with the cold comfort of the truth about the murder.

我们最终得知了事实的真相，怀特医生确实是凶手，但这并未使读者们得到任何的安慰。

But eventuality can be cold comfort in an era when tomorrow is radically different from today and unrecognizable compared with yesterday.

但是在一个明天同今天根本不同并且根本无法与昨天相比的时代，最终结果只是一种冷冰冰的安慰罢了。

The happy ending is cold comfort: a ruck of bony children trying to sleep in a shantytown.

书中的快乐结局也没有带给人多少安慰：一群瘦巴巴的小孩在贫民区中设法安睡。

After losing my job, it was cold comfort to be told I'd won the office raffle.

我失去工作以后，听说我抽中了公司的奖券，有同画饼。

The fact that researchers have sequenced the genomes of all 99 strains of the human rhinovirus is cold comfort for my raw nose.

研究人员已经对所有99种已知鼻病毒的基因组完成了排序。不过这个事实并不能对我发痛的鼻子带来什么帮助。

Cold Comfort: You and nearby allies protected by endure elements.

寒冷慰藉：你和身边的盟友受到“忍耐环境”的保护。

True, it's not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that's cold comfort.

没错，这并不是上世纪三十年代“大萧条”的重演，但即便这样，也是不过是一种冷漠的安慰而已。

But if growth in the volume of exports continues to fall away, increased pricing power will be cold comfort for China's economy.

但如果出口量的增速持续下滑，那么定价能力增强对中国经济也起不了多大作用。

Still, that may be cold comfort for the investors who rode the entire 53% decline from the peak to the March 10 low.

不过，对那些经历了市场从见顶直至3月10日低点暴跌53%整个过程的投资者来说，这或许是一个于事无补的安慰。

The loss could have been heavier, but that was cold comfort.

这次损失不算太重，但那并不值得高兴。

Good news for the Class of 2012, perhaps, but cold comfort for this year's graduates.

或许这对2012届毕业生是好消息，但是今年的毕业生还必须面对残酷的现实。

But, when it's you without a job, when you're not able to draw a paycheck, that's cold comfort.

可是，当你没有工作，当你领不到薪水，那是简直不起作用的安慰。

Yet all this is cold comfort.

所有的这些都是冷漠的安慰。

But it will be cold comfort for most of China's trade partners and rivals.

但对中国多数贸易伙伴和竞争对手来说，这都将是无用的安慰。

Good cold, frost measures to prevent cold comfort to the skin.

做好防寒、防冻措施，防止冷风对皮肤的抚慰。

Now, many people find it cold comfort to join such an abstract group, especially when they have not yet met any noble ones in person.

诚然，不少人觉得加入这么一个抽象的团体，得到的慰勉温暖不足，特别是当他们还没有亲自遇到一位圣者时。

Of course that is cold comfort to the creditors who have lost money.

当然，这不过是在象征性的安慰那些赔钱了的债权人。

It is cold comfort to know that others are ill too.

即使知道人家也在患病，也不成为安慰。