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
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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。