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
- 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。 - For investors looking for clues about the stock market, the decrease may be disheartening.
对于那些希望知道股市是涨还是跌的投资人来说，这种减速可能会使他们感到沮丧。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The weeks from Vienna to the 22nd Party Congress had nevertheless been cruel and disheartening.
从维也纳会谈到苏共二十二次代表大会之间的那几周，一直是严峻和令人沮丧的。 - 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。