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
- 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。 - 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。 - Last year's results were most dispiriting.
去年的成果是最令人气馁的。 - Dispiriting research, he says, indicates that MBA students actually become less ethical over the course of their education.
他表示，一些令人沮丧的研究成果表明，在他们受教育期间，MBA学生的伦理水平越来越低。 - 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。 - This has been a dispiriting campaign, where a few dozen swing constituencies have been targeted like battleground states in a US presidential election.
这是一场令人沮丧的竞选，几十个摇摆选区就像美国总统选举中的摇摆州一样，被各党派激烈争夺。 - 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。 - 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。 - It was a bit dispiriting to see so few people arriving for the meeting.
看见这么少的人来开会，叫人有点沮丧。