consolation

It will not be much consolation for Shell that rivals, too, have their share of problems trying to do business in Iraq.

尽管其竞争对手在伊拉克的商业尝试同样被种种问题困扰，但这不会给壳牌带来多大慰籍。

It was no consolation to Miss Elizabeth that she was losing weight.

体重正在减轻对伊丽莎白小姐而言并非是一种安慰。

I lived here for a while and learned how beauty is the consolation of every past empire.

我在这里居住了些时日，并了解到每个昔日帝国能带给你多么美丽的安慰。

As a longtime journalist, I feel some consolation to see the connections between the reporters they were and the writers they became.

做了很长时间记者，能看到他们曾经作为记者和后来成为作家之间的联系，我觉得很安慰。

If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem.

如果能有解决办法的话，那就是自然的缓慢速度给我们几十年甚至是几百年去解决这个问题。

I was trying to say to John then that it is a game of football. It does not sound much consolation at the minute.

我试着告诉特里这只是一场比赛，但在目前的情况下，我的安慰似乎不怎么管用。

Their consolation, if you'd listen to, is no more than such that it's not your fault and things would have been worse if it had been them.

听他们安慰无非就是听他们说，这不是你的错，如果当时是他们的话，也许会做得更糟。

The little consolation I can find is that, at the end of her life, I was able to spend time with her again.

唯一让我感到安慰的是，我陪她走完了人生的最后旅程。

It has given me great consolation and delight to see such a vivacious younger generation.

看到这样朝气的青年一代，我都感到很安慰很高兴。

You slink home with your $100, having only the small consolation of knowing that at least you did the rational thing.

你拿着$100溜回家，除了那一点点慰藉——自己至少做了理智的选择。

it has been a continual consolation in the face of life's hardships, my own and others', and an unfailing well-spring of tolerance.

在自己或者他人面临人生困难时，它时常给我安慰，并且一直是我宽容的源泉。

Others seek consolation in the fact that an iPad can't open a bottle and assess whether or not its contents are up to snuff.

其他酒侍则从事实中寻求安慰，即苹果平板电脑无法开酒瓶，也无法评估瓶中酒是否已变质。

Mm, not so much. Hey, if it's any consolation, You happen to be the illegitimate half brother Of the guy we do care about.

恩，不是这样。噢，如果对你有所安慰的话，你的确是我们所关心的家伙的，同父异母的兄弟。

It's been a bit of a consolation for missing the World Cup.

错失了参加世界杯的机会当然会有些不开心。

The only consolation was that Gauguin seemed quite taken with the Sunflowers.

唯一令人欣慰的事情是，高更似乎还蛮欣赏这几幅向日葵。

Lisa: Actually, I don't know anything about him. I'd like to think he's highly skilled. That would at least be some consolation.

莉莎：事实上，我对他一无所知。但我希望他的工作能力很强。这样至少会安慰一点。

Fanny's best consolation was in what he said and this was not quite sufficient to do away with the pain of her inner heart.

他的一番话是对范妮的最大安慰。但是这不足以克服她的内心之苦。

From the absoluteness of the "me" a great deal of religious consolation can be spun.

从绝对的“我”中，可以编织出许多宗教的慰藉。

I don't pride myself on it, but it's a small consolation that I was able to take at least five pictures.

我并非为此自豪，但是我能拍下至少五张照片，还是稍稍安慰了我。

If there's consolation, it's that the terrorist assets now known to exist were not used as effectively as they might have been.

如果有什么值得安慰和庆幸，那就是恐怖分子的有些资源并没有得到充分利用，否则后果不堪设想。