Disheartening

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishearten

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• 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.
• It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact, that even these readers persisted in wondering. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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