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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。