daunt是什么意思

双语用例

• The breadth of the period considered is both daunting and laudable, providing big contexts and allowing the formulation of big questions and answers.

• Without the simplifying assumption of ministerial autonomy, there can be little doubt that the task will be a daunting one.

• Moreover, it is a truly daunting task to find the needle you are looking for in the enormous haystack of documents that search-engines return.

• Although the number of different versions of the paradigm may seem daunting, their definition and use is well motivated, and their interrelations are carefully defined.

• Such fatalism comes easily to societies beset by daunting and uncontrollable factors.

• They are, however, much too long, and they leave the reader the daunting task of separating the wheat from the chaff.

• The state management problem would be daunting without widespread voluntary action by workers.

• However, with the advent of the computer such daunting detail and comprehensiveness is more than readily supported by growing database technology and methodology.