dispiriting

adj.

1. 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

1. 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.
   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。

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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
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. Last year's results were most dispiriting.
    去年的成果是最令人气馁的。
12. The conclusion is dispiriting.
    结论令人沮丧。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. The prospects for southern Europe are dispiriting going on depressing.
    欧洲南部的前景已是雪上加霜。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. Our lack of progress is very dispiriting.
    我们毫无进展真使人气馁。
22. 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。

adj

1. destructive of morale and self-reliance

   Synonym:    demoralizingdemoralisingdisheartening