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disheartened

/dis-hahr-tn/US // dɪsˈhɑr tn //UK // (dɪsˈhɑːtən) //

心灰意冷,心灰意冷的,沮丧,丧气

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.

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Examples

  • “I think he would have been disheartened, but knowing Lemkin he would not have lost faith,” says Belzberg.

  • Another bishop was apparently disheartened to find the word “sin” appear only once in the entire document.

  • Stories about race were, at least in my disheartened experience, closed to comments.

  • It was a double defeat that left our community disappointed, disaffected, and disheartened.

  • I've lived in Egypt since 2003 and much as I love it here I am sometimes disheartened and frustrated by the constant harassment.

  • His search has always hitherto been fruitless, and he has sunk back, disheartened, into the sea.

  • Disheartened, the Confederates now fell back, leaving the field to those who had so valiantly defended it.

  • But during the retreat he led the van and did yeoman service in restoring order among the disheartened troops.

  • This flinching of the captain, just on the eve of a perilous campaign, naturally disheartened the whole army.

  • That which would have disheartened and disarmed other men, seemed only to animate him with all Macbeth's wild courage of despair.