商务英语：今日热词——注定失败者

缓和、缓解（及物动词）

(transitive verb) To make something painful less severe; to soothe.

EXAMPLE: When his wife died suddenly, nothing his friends or family could say was able to assuage the sad husband's terrible grief.

妻子突然逝世，朋友和家人说什么也无法缓解这位丈夫的深深悲痛。

a lost cause

注定失败者

A person, group, idea, or situation without any hope of success or improvement.

EXAMPLE: My favorite basketball team has lost every game so far this year, and I'm starting to think that it's a lost cause.

今年，我最喜欢的篮球队输掉了到目前为止的所有比赛，我开始相信，这支队伍肯定没戏了。