But even by their usual gloomy standards, Britons seem to have got themselves into a slough of despond of late.

但即便依据英国人正常的悲观标准的话，最近英国人似乎陷入了绝望的境地。

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He was sinking into the Slough of Despond.

他那时正陷入极度沮丧的状态。

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Well, you dropped Linton with it into a slough of despond.

好呀，你把林惇和这样的消遣一起丢入了‘绝望的深渊’啦。

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That period of exuberance followed a long stretch in the 1970s and 1980s when investors were in a slough of despond.

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As the overblown optimism wears off and the hopes of JK Rowling-like status evaporate, so the slough of despond will take a hold.

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Still, it seems unlikely that either Mr Thompson or Mr Huckabee possesses the necessary heft to pull their party out of the slough of despond.

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