disheartened

英 [dɪsˈhɑːtnd]

美 [dɪsˈhɑːrtnd]

adj.  灰心的;失望的;气馁的

过去式：disheartened　过去分词：disheartened　

BNC.41606 / COCA.34933

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 灰心的;失望的;气馁的
  If you aredisheartened, you feel disappointed about something and have less confidence or less hope about it than you did before.
  1. He was disheartened by their hostile reaction.
     他们的敌对反应让他打了退堂鼓。

英英释义

adj

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic
  1. desperate demoralized people looking for work
  2. felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem
  3. the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest
  Synonym:demoralizeddemoraliseddiscouraged

双语例句

• This defeat has really disheartened the team.
  这次战败确实使该队垂头丧气。
• He had felt depressed and disheartened.
  他觉得沮丧和气馁。
• We do not be disheartened, cannot be unrealistically optimistic either.
  我们既不要悲观失望，也不能盲目乐观。
• The disheartened man then rendezvoused with his cheating mistress to ask her the same questions about his wife.
  他的妻子告诉他，他的情妇几乎和船上的每个男士都睡过觉。
• He was disheartened at the result.
  这个结果使他垂头丧气。
• He felt disheartened, as he had failed in the examination.
  考试失误，他觉得很丧气。
• I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two.
  我第一号和第二号的画未得到成功使我很灰心。
• He's easily disheartened by difficulties.
  他一遇困难就灰心丧气。
• 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。
• Those young men are too easily disheartened by difficulties.
  那些年青人遇到困难时太容易泄气了。