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

然而，尽管人生的起点不尽人意，但男孩尤里相对算满足。

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

漫潜者探索的是毫无前途的沙坪区域以及没有任何可见居动物的泥沙区域。

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指望的定婚期里，他在新的工作中能安定下。

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，毫无前景的自然史一直被视为生物学界的灰姑娘，他们却把其中的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。