adj. 令人沮丧的; 使人气馁的
BNC.21161 / COCA.27184
- ADJ-GRADED 令人沮丧的;令人气馁的;令人心灰意懒的
Something that is dispiriting causes 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.
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
英英释义
adj
- destructive of morale and self-reliance
Synonym: demoralizingdemoralisingdisheartening
- 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。 - The fifth lesson is deeply dispiriting: Tory-or Labour-led Britain will retreat from the world.
第五点非常令人沮丧:保守党或工党领导的英国将要退出世界舞台。 - But there is an alternative and possibly more dispiriting narrative: as exporting companies become more productive and move into higher-quality segments of the market, their willingness to use a lower exchange rate to increase their market share abroad diminishes.
但另一种可能更令人沮丧的说法是,随着出口公司产能提高并进入市场更高端领域,它们利用汇率贬值增加海外市场份额的意愿下降。 - 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。 - 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。 - From congealed curry to cold pasta, you may think there's nothing more dispiriting than a fridge full of leftovers.
凝固的咖喱、冰凉的意大利面,你会发现没有什么比打开冰箱后发现满是剩菜更令人沮丧啦。 - 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。 - For the United States and the people of its beleaguered Gulf Coast, a dispiriting summer of oil and anger lies dead ahead.
对美国及被围困的墨西哥湾人民,必将面临为石油和愤怒充斥的令人沮丧的夏天。 - 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。 - 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。 - Last year's results were most dispiriting.
去年的成果是最令人气馁的。 - 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。 - 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。 - A dirty office loo is really dispiriting.
肮脏的办公楼厕所的确会让人失去精气神。 - The prospects for southern Europe are dispiriting going on depressing.
欧洲南部的前景已是雪上加霜。 - 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。 - There is no more dispiriting sight than a woman struggling in her shoes.
没有比看到一位女士穿着高跟鞋挣扎的场面更让人沮丧的了。 - 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。 - 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。 - Our lack of progress is very dispiriting.
我们毫无进展真使人气馁。 - 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。