1·In fact, his business career had distinctly unpromising beginnings.
事实上，他的职业生涯开始时看起来非常没有前途。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·You always say that girls grow up definitely unpromising.
您经常说女孩长大肯定没出息。
3·If we open a quarrel these, it was hopeless, so unpromising.
如果我们纠缠这些，那真是没出息，太没出息了。
4·Is agricultural co-operation promising, or is it unpromising?
合作化究竟是有希望，还是没有希望？
5·Yet in this unpromising setting, some positive signs are visible.
但在这种绝望的环境下，我们仍可见到一些积极的迹象。
6·Graydon Smith's career in contract law is off to an unpromising start.
在合同法中的事业终止于一个毫无未来的开端。
7·An ugly and unpromising child grows into a beautiful and worthy person.
一个丑陋、没有前途的小孩长成了一个漂亮、令人敬重的人物。
8·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。
9·He said that two factors made the success of economic liberty unpromising.
他说有两个因素使得经济自由的希望渺茫。
10·How often do you find that an unpromising book turns out to be a pretty good read?
你有多少次发现一本本来读不下去的书原来还不错？