dispiriting

美 [dɪˈspɪrɪtɪŋ]英 [dɪˈspɪrɪtɪŋ]
  • adj.令人沮丧的;使人气馁的
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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

dispiriting

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    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。

adj

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destructive of morale and self-reliance
Synonym: demoralizing demoralising disheartening

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  1. 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。

  2. 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。

  3. 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。

  4. 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。

  5. Last year 's results were most dispiriting .

    去年的成果是最令人气馁的。

  6. 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?

  7. 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。

  8. The prospects for southern Europe are dispiriting going on depressing .

    欧洲南部的前景已是雪上加霜。

  9. 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。

  10. 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。

  11. Our lack of progress is very dispiriting .

    我们毫无进展真使人气馁。

  12. 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。

  13. 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。

  14. 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。

  15. 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。

  16. 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

  17. The conclusion is dispiriting .

    结论令人沮丧。

  18. 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。

  19. 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。

  20. 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。

  21. 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。

  22. 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)。

  23. 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。

  24. 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。

  25. 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。

  26. 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。

  27. 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。

  28. 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。