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
- 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 response was dispiriting: not a single buyer replied.
但结果令人失望：他没有得到任何回应。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。