Dishearten

(verb.) take away the enthusiasm of.

编辑:梅尔维尔

• Margaret heard enough of this unreasonableness to dishearten her; and when they came away she found it impossible to cheer her father. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Don't say that and dishearten me. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• 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·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She was disheartened by Lady Bertram's silence, awed by Sir Thomas's grave looks, and quite overcome by Mrs. Norris's admonitions. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I noted down these particulars in my pocket-book, feeling as I did so both doubtful and disheartened about my next proceedings. 威尔基·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. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I try to persuade myself that it is so, because I am anxious not to be disheartened already about the future. 威尔基·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·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I felt the truth--the disheartening truth--of those words. 威尔基·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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was very hard; very hard; lonely and disheartening. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A third and fourth friend in the vicinity was appealed to with the same disheartening reply of a story of wholesale spoliation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The same dense, disheartening obscurity hangs over the fate and fortunes of Anne Catherick, and her companion, Mrs. Clements. 威尔基·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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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