1·A small drop in the inflation rate was cold comfort for the millions without a job.
对数百万失业者来说，通货膨胀率的微降是不起作用的安慰。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·Insurance will be cold comfort following the failure on October 31st of VSS Enterprise, resulting in the death of one pilot and the severe injury to another.
在10月31日 VSS Enterprise 失事，导致一名飞行员死亡、另一名飞行员重伤后，保险只是一种于事无补的安慰。
3·But insurance will be cold comfort following the failure on October 31st of VSS Enterprise, resulting in the death of one pilot and the severe injury to another.
但在10月31日 VSS Enterprise 飞机失事，导致一名飞行员死亡、另一名飞行员重伤后，保险（对人们来说）将是一种于事无补的安慰。
4·These figures may look good on paper but are cold comfort to the islanders themselves.
这些数字理论上看来可能不错，但对岛民们却起不到安慰的作用。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·Yet all this is cold comfort.
所有的这些都是冷漠的安慰。
6·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。
7·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。
8·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？
9·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。
10·As a whole, the continent at the bottom of the Earth has warmed by roughly half a degree Celsius in the last 50 years-cold comfort for climatologists.
总的来说，我们地球底端的大陆在过去50年里暖了差不多0.5摄氏度——-对气候学家来说，这是个不起任何作用的安慰。