He looks grey, owlish, bespectacled and glum. If the Republicans are looking for a jolt of inspiration and a fresh face to lead them into battle, Mr McConnell is not their man.

如果共和党人寻求的是令人为之一振，能领导他们奋战的新面孔，那么麦康内尔并不是合适的人选。

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Within a matter of a few weeks he will (almost certainly) be replaced as prime minister by Gordon Brown, the permanently glum-looking finance minister.

再不超过数周的时间内，他的职位将（几乎可以肯定）被戈登布朗，永远都是怒容的财政大臣所代替。

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The doctor had assured him it was nothing serious, but he was looking very glum.

医生说不要紧，但莱蒙的脸色很阴沉。

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Things are looking glum for the semiconductor sector, and are not likely to pick up again until the middle of 2013.

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In public, she appears sensible, pragmatic, occasionally glum-looking, ever careful not to cause offence.

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Regulators had just dealt a big setback to an experimental Gilead drug, and Martin snapped a shot of his glum-looking research chief, who was in mourning.

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