dispiriting
- adj.令人沮丧的;使人气馁的
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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Last year 's results were most dispiriting .
去年的成果是最令人气馁的。
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And isn 't that part of what so often makes politics dispiriting ?
不正是这些因素使人们对政治感到失望的吗?
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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。
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The prospects for southern Europe are dispiriting going on depressing .
欧洲南部的前景已是雪上加霜。
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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。
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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。
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Our lack of progress is very dispiriting .
我们毫无进展真使人气馁。
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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。
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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。
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For Alan Turing this would be dull and dispiriting work compared with the excitement of the relay race ;
对于艾伦·图灵来说,与解谜接力赛相比,这是一份抑郁的、让人打不起精神的工作。
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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。
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George Murray : I prefer memorials to funerals . They 're less dispiriting .
追悼会更好些没有葬礼那么压抑
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The conclusion is dispiriting .
结论令人沮丧。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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This dispiriting stuff reminded me of Mark Granovetter 's work on " the strength of weak ties , " published in 1973 .
这种令人沮丧的现实让我想起马克•葛兰诺维特(MarkGranovetter)在1973年发表的《弱纽带的力量》(thestrengthofweakties)。
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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。
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At the heart of his work is a thesis as dispiriting as it is radical : that the present dysfunctional state of the world is where we were always going to end up .
其著作的核心是一个既令人沮丧又十分极端的命题:当今世界的这种乱局是我们无论怎么做都摆脱不了的宿命。
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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。
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Because of the huge improvement people often experience when they start exercising - swimmers can go from one length to 20 in a matter of weeks - it can be dispiriting to see your progress slow .
因为,人们通常能在开始锻炼时体验到巨大进步(游泳的距离会在几星期内增长到原来的20倍),但如果你看到自己的进步变慢,就会感到沮丧。
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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。
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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。