disheartened

英 [dɪsˈhɑːtnd]

美 [dɪsˈhɑːrtnd]

adj.  灰心的;失望的;气馁的

过去式：disheartened　过去分词：disheartened　

BNC.41606 / COCA.34933

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 灰心的;失望的;气馁的
  If you aredisheartened, you feel disappointed about something and have less confidence or less hope about it than you did before.
  1. He was disheartened by their hostile reaction.
     他们的敌对反应让他打了退堂鼓。

英英释义

adj

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic
  1. desperate demoralized people looking for work
  2. felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem
  3. the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest
  Synonym:demoralizeddemoraliseddiscouraged

双语例句

• She became quite dejected, disheartened from all further effort on her own part whatever.
  她十分抑郁，十分灰心，无论怎么也不想自己再往上努力了。
• The disheartened man then rendezvoused with his cheating mistress to ask her the same questions about his wife.
  他的妻子告诉他，他的情妇几乎和船上的每个男士都睡过觉。
• He's easily disheartened by difficulties.
  他一遇困难就灰心丧气。
• Lack of interest that disheartened the instructor;
  缺乏兴趣使教员很泄气；
• Our army in Italy was somewhat disheartened by the removal of seven divisions.
  我们在意大利的军队因为被调走七个师，士气有些沮丧。
• If this is not affirmed, people will be disheartened.
  不肯定这一点，就泄气。
• Those young men are too easily disheartened by difficulties.
  那些年青人遇到困难时太容易泄气了。
• This time, as last time, he should not be disheartened.
  与上次一样，这一次奥巴马也不应该感到沮丧。
• I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two.
  我第一号和第二号的画未得到成功使我很灰心。
• The style of these appointments has disheartened pro-market reformers.
  这些任命使亲市场的改革家沮丧万分。