disheartening

1. 令人灰心的;令人气馁的
   If something is disheartening, it makes you feel disappointed and less confident or less hopeful.

1. Wading through dozens of candidates who all look similar on paper can be a disheartening exercise.
   因为从这些从纸面上看起来大同小异的应聘者之中进行筛选，也是一桩令人泄气的烦心事。
2. For investors looking for clues about the stock market, the decrease may be disheartening.
   对于那些希望知道股市是涨还是跌的投资人来说，这种减速可能会使他们感到沮丧。
3. I settled on the same disheartening conclusion I had arrived at all too often during my travels abroad: I would never know.
   这就是我在旅途中经常碰到的问题，我只能垂头丧气地接受这个事实&我永远也不知道。
4. The results of my informal, back-of-the-envelope calculations were rather disheartening.
   根据我非正式的统计结果，我在信封背面所计算出的统计数值令人相当失望。
5. It is disheartening to see how blissfully unaware of this fact you truly are.
   看到你幸福地丝毫不了解这样的事实，这令我们很失望。
6. The really disheartening part: Among those hired in2009 after a lengthy search, almost half ( 49%) said they liked their new jobs less than the ones they had lost.
   最令人沮丧的是：在那些花了很长时间，终于在2009年找到工作的人中，有近一半（49%）的人表示更喜欢之前的工作。
7. You have chosen the most disheartening parts to post for today.
   你选择了这首诗里最令人伤心的部分在今天贴出。
8. We propose the light to throw on this disheartening tragedy.
   我们对这桩令人沮丧的悲剧提出我们的说明。
9. After so many disheartening experiences, is it not naive to expect that credibility for such a regime can be restored?
   在如此之多令人沮丧的经历之后，指望恢复这一机制的信誉难道不天真吗？
10. The weeks from Vienna to the 22nd Party Congress had nevertheless been cruel and disheartening.
    从维也纳会谈到苏共二十二次代表大会之间的那几周，一直是严峻和令人沮丧的。
11. It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such shameful means resorted to to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead in their graves and defiling their honored names with slander.
    他毁谤亡人，以谰言玷污其美名，用这种下流手段来达到政治上的成功，使有道德之人甚为沮丧。
12. It can be disheartening when you apply for a credit card and get turned down.
    它可以沮丧时，你必须申请一张信用卡，并得到拒绝。
13. Many of the early attempts at machine translation were therefore disheartening failures.
    许多机器翻译的早期尝试都令人泄气地失败了。
14. VERONICA PELLEGRIN: "Getting the letter and seeing [ you] will no longer be employed, your services will no longer be required& it is very disheartening, to say the least, and frustrating."
    维罗尼卡•佩勒格林：“我收到了邮件，信上说，你被解雇了，学校不再需要你的服务了&这十分令人沮丧，至少令人感到挫败。”
15. Things were so disheartening that he had come to the conclusion that there was not much chance of their succeeding in running the blockade.
    这种四面楚歌的境地，他想来当真没有多大把握能够冲得出去。
16. Explore options for troubled teens can be disheartening, to say theleast.
    对于问题青年采取探索性方法可能会使人气馁。
17. Its unravelling was swift and disheartening, and brings Thailand back to the brink of further unrest.
    局势迅速缓解，双方激动情绪平复，泰国由可能发生更大规模骚乱退回至骚乱边缘。
18. While large gifts may be landing at the doors of business schools, the task of telephoning alumni and others to ask for money can be gruelling and often disheartening.
    尽管商学院里或许会有大笔捐赠送上门来，但给校友和其他人打电话筹款的任务，可能让人精疲力竭，而且时常会感到沮丧。
19. Adi Da Samraj: The circumstance of existence, in and of itself, is disheartening.
    阿谛达至尊：（人类）存在的状况，只其本身，是另人沮丧的。
20. It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact.
    这是一个令人懊丧的情况，但是一个悲惨的事实。
21. Closer analysis reveals a less disheartening picture: the negative changes in position are generally small and, this year, 10 new schools have entered the ranking.
    但经过更详细的分析后就会发现，其实局面可能没那么糟糕：那些学校的排名下降幅度普遍很小，而且，今年有10所新学校首次进入排行榜。

adj

1. destructive of morale and self-reliance

   Synonym:    demoralizingdemoralisingdispiriting