disheartening

英 [dɪsˈhɑːtnɪŋ]

美 [dɪsˈhɑːrtnɪŋ]

adj.  令人灰心的;令人气馁的

BNC.32750 / COCA.28663

柯林斯词典

• 令人灰心的;令人气馁的
  If something isdisheartening, it makes you feel disappointed and less confident or less hopeful.

英英释义

adj

• destructive of morale and self-reliance
  Synonym:demoralizingdemoralisingdispiriting

双语例句

• I settled on the same disheartening conclusion I had arrived at all too often during my travels abroad: I would never know.
  这就是我在旅途中经常碰到的问题，我只能垂头丧气地接受这个事实&我永远也不知道。
• VERONICA PELLEGRIN: "Getting the letter and seeing [ you] will no longer be employed, your services will no longer be required& it is very disheartening, to say the least, and frustrating."
  维罗尼卡•佩勒格林：“我收到了邮件，信上说，你被解雇了，学校不再需要你的服务了&这十分令人沮丧，至少令人感到挫败。”
• The weeks from Vienna to the 22nd Party Congress had nevertheless been cruel and disheartening.
  从维也纳会谈到苏共二十二次代表大会之间的那几周，一直是严峻和令人沮丧的。
• Adi Da Samraj: The circumstance of existence, in and of itself, is disheartening.
  阿谛达至尊：（人类）存在的状况，只其本身，是另人沮丧的。
• Its unravelling was swift and disheartening, and brings Thailand back to the brink of further unrest.
  局势迅速缓解，双方激动情绪平复，泰国由可能发生更大规模骚乱退回至骚乱边缘。
• We propose the light to throw on this disheartening tragedy.
  我们对这桩令人沮丧的悲剧提出我们的说明。
• Many of the early attempts at machine translation were therefore disheartening failures.
  许多机器翻译的早期尝试都令人泄气地失败了。
• Explore options for troubled teens can be disheartening, to say theleast.
  对于问题青年采取探索性方法可能会使人气馁。
• It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such shameful means resorted to to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead in their graves and defiling their honored names with slander.
  他毁谤亡人，以谰言玷污其美名，用这种下流手段来达到政治上的成功，使有道德之人甚为沮丧。
• It is disheartening to see how blissfully unaware of this fact you truly are.
  看到你幸福地丝毫不了解这样的事实，这令我们很失望。