cold comfort
英汉例句
- It is cold comfort to know that others are ill too.
即使知道人家也在患病，也不成爲安慰。 - The loss could have been heavier, but that was cold comfort.
這次損失不算太重，但那竝不值得高興。 - John failed the exam, it was cold comfort to him to be told that he could take a make-up exam next semester.
約翰考試不及格，告訴他下學期可以補考衹是徒增他的煩惱而已。 - After losing my job it was cold comfort to be told I'd won the office raffle.
我失去工作以後，聽說我抽中了公司的獎券，有同畫餅。