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

• 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。
• Things were so disheartening that he had come to the conclusion that there was not much chance of their succeeding in running the blockade.
  这种四面楚歌的境地，他想来当真没有多大把握能够冲得出去。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。”
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。