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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• For investors looking for clues about the stock market, the decrease may be disheartening.
  对于那些希望知道股市是涨还是跌的投资人来说，这种减速可能会使他们感到沮丧。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• While large gifts may be landing at the doors of business schools, the task of telephoning alumni and others to ask for money can be gruelling and often disheartening.
  尽管商学院里或许会有大笔捐赠送上门来，但给校友和其他人打电话筹款的任务，可能让人精疲力竭，而且时常会感到沮丧。
• 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 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。