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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The results of my informal, back-of-the-envelope calculations were rather disheartening.
  根据我非正式的统计结果，我在信封背面所计算出的统计数值令人相当失望。
• The really disheartening part: Among those hired in2009 after a lengthy search, almost half ( 49%) said they liked their new jobs less than the ones they had lost.
  最令人沮丧的是：在那些花了很长时间，终于在2009年找到工作的人中，有近一半（49%）的人表示更喜欢之前的工作。
• After so many disheartening experiences, is it not naive to expect that credibility for such a regime can be restored?
  在如此之多令人沮丧的经历之后，指望恢复这一机制的信誉难道不天真吗？
• You have chosen the most disheartening parts to post for today.
  你选择了这首诗里最令人伤心的部分在今天贴出。
• It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact.
  这是一个令人懊丧的情况，但是一个悲惨的事实。
• 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。
• It can be disheartening when you apply for a credit card and get turned down.
  它可以沮丧时，你必须申请一张信用卡，并得到拒绝。