因此，失業人數上升，股市下挫，物業市道也較諸高峰期大幅下降，旅遊業的生意也大跌。香港今年第一季經濟出現負增長，經濟睏境在未來幾季會持續下去。 Therefore, unemployment has risen, stock prices have fallen and property market has declined very substantially from the peak. Tourism has also fallen off sharply, Hong Kong's economy recorded negative growth in the first quarter. The economy will continue to be difficult for a number of quarters to come.
睏難和挫折從來就壓不住他們的好奇心。 Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity.
對老是責怪自己的人，挫其傲氣的最快的方法是同意他（的意見）。 The quickest way to take the starch out of a man who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
我沒有意識到我在她婚姻遭受挫折後與她交上了朋友，在她忘記了那次破裂的婚姻以後我們成為了親密的朋友。 I didn't realize I'd caught her on the rebound but we became close friends once she had got over her broken marriage.
而在二十世紀八十年代蘇聯對阿富汗的戰爭中，阿富汗當地的傳染病也是造成蘇軍受挫的一個重大原因。 Concerns were also stoked by the experience of the Soviet army during its war and occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
他們經受不住更多的挫折了。 They couldn't afford any more setbacks.
反敗為勝從挫折或不利境地中突然的恢復 An abrupt recovery from a setback or disadvantage.
如果你曾經氣餒挫敗過，如果你曾竭盡心力熬過圖厄，如果你曾很努力卻失敗了，如果你因病痛導致行動不便，本書可能正是你遍尋不看的荒漠甘泉。 And, too, if you have ever been discouraged, if you have had difficulties to surmount which took the very soul out of you, if you have tried and failed, if you were ever handicapped by illness or physical affliction, this story of my son's discovery and use of the Carnegie formula may prove to be the oasis in the Desert of Lost Hope, for which you have been searching.
審判，磨難，挫折 A trial, affliction, or frustration.
從挫折中恢復 To recuperate after a defeat.
如果說瑪格麗特的婚姻一直不順的話，她的感情生活也挫折不斷。 If Margaret's marriage was troubled, her affairs were no refuge.
新老師可能被分派到電腦教學剛剛啓步的學校，大傢必須從頭學起，一齊開步走；資深的老師空有豐富的教學經驗，在運用電腦教學的大前提下，卻突然無法施展，不但士氣受挫，也可能影響教學表現，得不償失。 Hence, all teachers -- including the seniors who are very experienced in teaching, but who are suddenly at a loss when it comes to computers -- will have to start from scratch and will have to progress together.Eventually, they will become frustrated and their teaching performance may be adversely affected. Based on this scenario, the cons seem to outweigh the pros.
又如黨在剋服陳獨秀機會主義之後所積蓄起來的力量，又在李立三同志冒險主義的領導之下，遭受了很大的挫折。 Again, under the leadership of Comrade Li Lisan's adventurism, the strength that had been built up after overcoming Chen Duxiu's opportunism was greatly weakened.
他們的熱誠在接二連三的挫折之後消失殆盡 Their good cheer broke after repeated setbacks.
我們的計劃嚴重受挫。 Our plans went badly adrift.
然而，經過半年我們傢人的喂養和寵愛，小狗在秋天遭遇了挫折。 Then in the fall,after six months of family nurture and adoration,Scampy suffered a setback.
果敢但沒有士氣消沉的德國人，雖然嚴重受挫但並沒有被打垮，他們仍然能夠為再次的軍事反擊打下堅實的基礎。 the resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival.
滿眼怒火的愛倫鄙視地質問他，嚮有禮有德的人說這種話，他到底是什麽意思，這番話澆退了他的熱情，也挫敗了他的勇氣。 With blazing and scornful eyes she fairly withered him by demanding whatever he meant by speaking to respectable people that way.
警察挫敗了匪徒搶劫銀行的企圖。 The police frustrated the bandits' attempt to rob the bank.
他們使強盜的計劃受到挫敗。 They balked the robber's plan.
警方挫敗了強盜的計畫。 The police balked the robber's plans.
那個人到50歲左右一直是個好人，後來他受了一連串的挫折，終於進了監牢。 The man was a good fellow till he was about fifty years of age; then a rot set in, now he's in gaol.
經歷挫折失敗或毀滅。 suffer defeat, failure, or ruin.
下滑至挫敗、死亡或者毀滅。 down to defeat, death, or ruin.
我們挫敗了他們的計劃。 What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge..
從鴉片戰爭，太平天國，戊戌維新，辛亥革命，直至北伐戰爭，一切為解除半殖民地半封建地位的革命的或改良的運動，都遭到了嚴重的挫折，因此依然保留下這個半殖民地半封建的地位。 The Opium War, the Taiping Revolution, the Reform Movement of I898, the Revolution of 1911 and the Northern Expedition -- the revolutionary or reform movements which aimed at extricating China from her semi-colonial and semi-feudal state -- all met with serious setbacks, and China remains a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.
挫折或倒轉 A setback or reversal.
阻力；挫折 A repulse; a setback.
受到挫折後重新組織。 organize anew, as after a setback.
他是不是遭到了嚴重的挫折？ Did he fall on a bad setback?
他在生意上遭到挫折。 He had a setback in his business.
這次挫折削弱了我的熱情。 This setback has drained away my keenness.