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

• 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。
• 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。”
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Closer analysis reveals a less disheartening picture: the negative changes in position are generally small and, this year, 10 new schools have entered the ranking.
  但经过更详细的分析后就会发现，其实局面可能没那么糟糕：那些学校的排名下降幅度普遍很小，而且，今年有10所新学校首次进入排行榜。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。