dispiriting

英 [dɪˈspɪrɪtɪŋ]

美 [dɪˈspɪrɪtɪŋ]

adj.  令人沮丧的; 使人气馁的

IELTS

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
  1. a dispiriting experience/failure
     令人沮丧的经历 / 失败

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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

adj

• destructive of morale and self-reliance
  Synonym:demoralizingdemoralisingdisheartening

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。