disheartening的意思|disheartening的解释-里氏词典

disheartening

使人沮丧的

The death of her mother disheartened her.
她母亲的死使她失去勇气。
Don't let the defeat dishearten you.
不要因这一挫折而气馁。

disheartening

[ adj ]
destructive of morale and self-reliance
<adj.all>

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.

disheartening \disheartening\ adj.
Causing loss of hope or enthusiasm.

Syn: demoralizing, demoralising, dispiriting.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

The slump is particularly disheartening, he says, because "We were out of the woods.
Bond prices had been higher for most of the day, lifted by more disheartening news about the U.S. economy.
What pulled support out from under the market was a disheartening performance on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average was down nearly 20 points as London trading came to a close.
What is triply disheartening about this is what it says about the current spirit of the president and the administration.
"One of the most disheartening aspects of inflation in the 1970s was the slowness of the electorate to see its odious consequences," Boltz says.
Still, it is disheartening to see the situation not only ended but reversed, with the parties offering tawdry appeals such as consumer price controls, thus compromising their commitments to liberty on the one hand and equality on the other.
In a statement, he said the results were "especially disheartening at the end of a decade marked by substantial education reform efforts."

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