Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax.

巴里紧随德克·博加德之后发表了演讲，不出所料，演讲顿时变得索然无味。

It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax.

令人悲哀的是，他的国际职业生涯竟如此惨淡收场。