Muck divers explore apparently unpromising sand flats and muddy silts devoid of visible inhabitants.

漫潜者探索是毫无前途沙坪区域以及没有任何可见居住动物泥沙区域。

Yet, despite this unpromising start, the boy Yuri seems to have been relatively content.

然而，尽管人生起点不尽人意，但男孩尤里相对来说还算满足。

Under these unpromising auspices, the parting took place, and the journey began.

在这些没有希情况下，离别发生了，旅程开始了。

Dick, meanwhile, turned to Mr. Bloeckman, determined to extract what gold he could from this unpromising load.

与此同时，迪克转向布洛克曼先生， 决心从这毫无希货物中榨取尽可多金子。

In spite of Eustacia's apparent willingness to wait through the period of an unpromising engagement, till he should be established in his new pursuit.

虽然游苔莎表面上愿意在一个没有多大婚期里等待，等他在新工作中下来。

To diminish the number of those who are capable of paying it, is surely a most unpromising expedient for encouraging the cultivation of corn.

减少有力支付人数， 无疑是鼓励种植谷物最没有希权宜之计。

From the unpromising material of natural history, long seen as the Cinderella of biological science, they fashioned an ideology as powerful and transformative as any philosophy or religion before it.

此前，毫无前景自然史一直被视为生物学界灰姑娘，他们却把其中意识形态塑造地同任何哲学思想或是宗教信仰一样强大，充满变革性。

It was an unpromising storefront—a grubby 1970s exterior that promised a " Vintage Clothes Emporium, all decades, all styles, low prices." But I walked in and stopped in my tracks.

这是一个毫无前途店面——一个 1970 年代肮脏外观， 承诺“复古服装商场，几十年，所有款式，低价。 ” 但我走进去并停了下来。

And I happen to see this really tiny study which had the unpromising name, sub-lethal behavior and physiological effects of the biomedical bleeding process on the American horseshoe crab, Limulus Polyphemus.

我碰巧看了这项非常微小研究，它名称、亚致死行为以及对美洲鲎（Limulus Polyphemus）生物医学放血过程生理影响都没有什么希。

He is also a risk-taker: at Roche he bet big on three costly trials of drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease, breast cancer and lung cancer, despite unpromising results in early clinical studies.

他也是一个冒险者：在罗氏，他对治疗阿尔茨海默病、乳腺癌和肺癌三项昂贵药物试验下了很大赌注，尽管早期临床研究结果并不乐观。

Chapters with titles as unpromising as " Cistern and Buckets" become some of the novel's most rewarding as Ishmael compares bailing out a sperm-whale's head to midwifery, which leads to reflections on Plato.

标题像“水箱和水桶”一样毫无希章节成为小说中最有价值部分，因为伊斯梅尔将救出抹香鲸头比作助产士，这引发了对柏拉图反思。

He was very strong and clever with his knife and knew how to cut the dry and dead wood away, and could tell when an unpromising bough or twig had still green life in it.

他非常强壮，用刀很聪明，知道如何砍掉枯死木头，知道什么时候一根没有希树枝或树枝上还有绿色生命。