The poverty in our cities is a damning indictment of modern society.

我们的城市中贫民的苦况是现代社会的一大败象。

Her report is expected to deliver a damning indictment of education standards.

人们预料她的报告会对教育标准予以强烈谴责。

Even Mark Twain, a man who enjoyed a hearty laugh, said that when it came to photographic portraits there could be "nothing more damning than a silly, foolish smile fixed forever".

就连乐于开怀大笑的马克吐温也说，当谈到人像照片时，“没有什么比一个又傻又蠢的微笑被永远定格更可怕的了”。

The way they swarm or flock together does not usually get good press coverage either: marching like worker ants might be a common simile for city commuters, but it's a damning, not positive, image.

它们蜂拥或聚集在一起的方式通常不会得到媒体的正面报道：城市的通勤者往往会被比喻成像工蚁一样行进，但这种比喻是一个不佳的、负面的形象。

Its conclusions were very damning for Netherton.

其结论对内瑟顿非常不利。

That may sound like damning criticism.

第三点听起来像是一种负面抨击。

The polls released in the run-up to the anniversary were damning.

在接近就职一周年时进行的民意调查非常糟糕。

However, it is that absence of proof that is perhaps most damning.

缺乏实验证明也许是弦理论最致命之处。

But dozens of damning internal Trafigura emails have now come to light.

但现在数十封咒骂托克公司的内部邮件曝光了。

The second book is richer, more considered and more damning than the first.

第二本书比第一本书更丰富，更人性化，更犀利。

It will be righted.She wants to right it by clobbering the guy or damning the baby.

她想要痛打这个男的或是诅咒这个小孩，去纠正这个不义行为。

Another damning statistic for South Africa is its appallingly high murder rate.

南非还有一项糟糕的统计，表明它还有着令人毛骨悚然的高谋杀率。

It will be righted. She wants to right it by clobbering the guy or damning the baby.

她想要痛打这个男的或是诅咒这个小孩，去纠正这个不义行为。

In Mr Arruda’s case it was a public prosecutor who collected the damning evidence.

在José Arruda的个案里，是由负责搜证的检察官发现弊端。

The more damning comparison might be to, well, other late-period Woody Allen films.

更加毁灭性的对比是其他伍迪·艾伦晚期的电影。

And this despite the evidence: damning Facebook photos of her drinking a glass of wine.

他们这都没顾上FACEBOOK上贴出的那些她正在喝一杯红酒时的相片。

Even what may appear as a benign intervention on the surface can have damning consequences.

表面上看似有利的干预，却有可能造成毁灭性的灾难。

Some of the most damning comments were conveniently released a few days before the election.

一些最致命的评论在选举之前的几天顺势出笼。

The thief would be looking for cash, but how much more interesting, how damning, this would be.

小偷要找现金，可那东西不是更有趣的多吗？真该死！

Two weeks ago the influential International Crisis Group issued a damning report against sanctions.

两个星期前，极具影响力的国际危机组织发表了一份强烈谴责制裁的报道。

A damning Rolling Stone article on Goldman in 2009 opened with precisely those words, the name apart.

《滚石》杂志在2009年的一篇关于高盛的文章就准确地以这段文字开篇，当然除了名字之外。

The Morningstar study is incredibly damning in terms of the market timing abilities of individual investors.

晨星公司这一研究结果,谴责了个体投资者的市场时机选择能力

How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering — waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.

可是我们现在在过道里不耐烦地踱来踱去，咒骂火车的拖拖拉拉！我们期待着，期待着，期待着火车进站的那一刻！

Then, shaking his head, he said something much more damning: “I can’t see it, ” the Silicon Valley marine said.

然后，摇头，而且说得更为要命：“我认为不可能，”这硅谷陆战队员说。

The authors' findings are damning -- but they may not be completely conclusive, according to another recent study.

该报告的发现简直是毁灭性的——但从近期的另一份研究看来，现在还不是盖棺定论的时候。

This is believed to be particularly damning, providing evidence of abuse that went well beyond the permitted guidelines.

有人相信这一举动会格外的具有惩罚性，它会提供证据证明中情局有越过许可范围进行虐囚。

More damning still is the way the company keeps collecting such data when users deliberately turn the location services off.

更加可恶的是当用户故意将这种定位的功能关闭时，苹果公司仍能持续地收集类似的数据。