Dishearten
[dɪs'hɑːt(ə)n]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
錄入:罗兰
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Dispirit, discourage, deject, depress.
手打:雷克斯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ENCOURAGE]
校對:罗杰
解釋/意思:
v.t. to deprive of heart courage or spirits: to discourage: to depress.—adjs. Disheart′ened; Disheart′ening.
手打:普里西拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Margaret heard enough of this unreasonableness to dishearten her; and when they came away she found it impossible to cheer her father. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Don't say that and dishearten me. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- His partner, however, became disheartened by the obstacles thrown in their way, and left this country for America before the success of the screw was established. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- When he had 'worked round,' as he called it, to Paris in his pilgrimage, and had wholly failed in it so far, he was not disheartened. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She was disheartened by Lady Bertram's silence, awed by Sir Thomas's grave looks, and quite overcome by Mrs. Norris's admonitions. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I noted down these particulars in my pocket-book, feeling as I did so both doubtful and disheartened about my next proceedings. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Though the workmen were now growing more weary and disheartened with each new volume they undertook, Gutenberg would not give up. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I try to persuade myself that it is so, because I am anxious not to be disheartened already about the future. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In turn they became disheartened, and would have been glad to submit without compromise. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I felt the truth--the disheartening truth--of those words. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Yet there is nothing strange or particularly disheartening about this commonplace observation: to expect anything else is to hope that a nation will lift itself by its own bootstraps. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was very hard; very hard; lonely and disheartening. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A third and fourth friend in the vicinity was appealed to with the same disheartening reply of a story of wholesale spoliation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The same dense, disheartening obscurity hangs over the fate and fortunes of Anne Catherick, and her companion, Mrs. Clements. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This friend, I pursued, is trying to get on in commercial life, but has no money, and finds it difficult and disheartening to make a beginning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
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