Being in low spirits; dejected and disheartened. 沮丧的情绪低落的;垂头丧气的和气馁的
It disheartened all of us that she had been dismissed. 她被解雇了,这使我们大家都很沮丧。
Don't be disheartened at this setback. 不要为这次挫折感到气馁。
disheartened
[ adj ] made less hopeful or enthusiastic <adj.all> desperate demoralized people looking for workfelt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest
Dishearten \Dis*heart"en\ (d[i^]s*h[aum]rt"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disheartened} (d[i^]s*h[aum]rt"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Disheartening}.] [Pref. dis- + hearten.] To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. --Macaulay.
Syn: To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter; terrify.
disheartened \dis*heart"ened\ (d[i^]s*h[aum]rt"'nd), adj. made less hopeful or enthusiastic; as, their lack of interest disheartened the instructor. [Narrower terms: pessimistic (vs. optimistic)]
Syn: demoralized, discouraged. [WordNet 1.5]
Pastor Christian Fuehrer, whose St. Nicholas Church was the birthplace of the "candlelight revolution," is disheartened the rebellion unleased nationalist fervor and a chase for Western riches.
Some traders were disheartened by what they called the market's failure to sustain the momentum of a rally that began two days earlier.
"It's a cumulative effect," said Abby Joseph Cohen, a portfolio strategist for Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. "Basically, investors are disheartened right now."
By yesterday afternoon, many student protesters were disheartened to see a new poster on campus.
"We are disheartened that we'd expended so many man-hours," said DiVito, who headed the investigation.
West German officials and media today praised Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev for softening his view on German reunification and said it could give hope to disheartened East Germans.
THE US fixed-income market starts this week disheartened and distinctly confused by the latest thoughts and actions of the Federal Reserve and their implications for interest rates. Last week's market activity was dominated by two Fed developments.
He will not be disheartened even though he is slapped on the face at each hint.' The article said Falkland-Argentine relations had perhaps been irreversibly ruined by the conflict.
"It's like getting a free kick in a soccer game." In the end, win or lose, Mr. Wofford and his supporters hope they will have given disheartened national Democrats an inkling of how they might challenge George Bush in next year's presidential race.