dispiriting
英 [dɪˈspɪrɪtɪŋ]
美 [dɪˈspɪrɪtɪŋ]
adj. 令人沮丧的; 使人气馁的
BNC.21161 / COCA.27184
牛津词典
adj.
- 令人沮丧的;使人气馁的
making sb lose their hope or enthusiasm- a dispiriting experience/failure
令人沮丧的经历 / 失败
- a dispiriting experience/failure
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 令人沮丧的;令人气馁的;令人心灰意懒的
Something that isdispiritingcauses you to lose your enthusiasm and excitement.- It's very dispiriting for anyone to be out of a job.
失业对每一个人来说都很懊丧。
- It's very dispiriting for anyone to be out of a job.
英英释义
adj
- destructive of morale and self-reliance
双语例句
- The results of China's first national pollution survey make for dispiriting reading.
中国官方公布的首次全国污染调查的结果令人担忧。 - The conclusion is dispiriting.
结论令人沮丧。 - The response was dispiriting: not a single buyer replied.
但结果令人失望:他没有得到任何回应。 - But stimulus measures such as temporary tax cuts for households or car scrappage schemes were dispiriting wastes of scarce time and money.
但临时性削减家庭税收或“旧车换现金”计划等刺激措施,则是令人沮丧的对稀缺时间和金钱的浪费。 - Dispiriting experiences like this will quickly damage the reputation of UK higher education abroad.
这种令人沮丧的经历将很快损害英国高等教育在海外的声誉。 - Her apparent desire to record every event of significance sometimes results in a dispiriting succession of military campaigns and diplomatic intrigues;
作者显然希望把所有重要事件都一一记录下来,结果有时无外乎对那些战争和外交阴谋活动的简单罗列,令人味同嚼蜡。 - Last year's results were most dispiriting.
去年的成果是最令人气馁的。 - This was probably the most trying and dispiriting time in Bruce's life.
这恐怕是李小龙一生中最为难熬和沮丧的一段时光了。 - She stopt to blush and laugh at her own relapse, and then resumed a more serious, more dispiriting cogitation upon what had been, and might be, and must be.
她不再往下想了,不由得脸红了,笑自己又故态复萌。接着她又更加认真、更加颓丧地回顾了已经发生的事,揣摩了可能发生和必定发生的事。 - That these thoughts should come from the author of what has been called the American creed seems particularly dispiriting to those who hope we will, one day, overcome.
这些想法竟来自美国信念的提出者,似乎尤其令那些希望我们有一天能克服偏见的人感到气馁。