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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Wading through dozens of candidates who all look similar on paper can be a disheartening exercise.
  因为从这些从纸面上看起来大同小异的应聘者之中进行筛选，也是一桩令人泄气的烦心事。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。