disheartening

The experience of Japan, which tried it in the early years of this decade, is disheartening to those who hope for great things.

日本在这十年里的头几年试过该方法，其结果是让期待重大变化的人非常恢心。

After eight years of disheartening warfare, it is tempting to see NATO's mission as a repeat of past misadventures in the Hindu Kush.

经过8年令人沮丧的战争，人们很容易地认为，北约在重蹈过去在兴都库什群山中灾难的覆辙。

As she read the disheartening words, Ms. Lu immediately began to panic. Where had she gone wrong?

她读了这封令人沮丧的拒信后，她有点慌了神儿，她到底哪里做错了？

Watching the evolution of economic discussion in Washington over the past couple of years has been a disheartening experience.

观察华盛顿过去几年来经济讨论的进程，一直是一段令人灰心丧气的经历。

Things were so disheartening that he had come to the conclusion that there was not much chance of their succeeding in running the blockade.

这种四面楚歌的境地，他想来当真没有多大把握能够冲得出去。

Tiger conservationists relate a disheartening tale of years of painstaking successes wiped out by poachers and corrupt forest officials.

老虎保护者口中的故事让人沮丧，数年取得的艰难成绩敌不过偷猎者和腐败的森林管理员。

Explore options for troubled teens can be disheartening, to say the least.

对于问题青年采取探索性方法可能会使人气馁。

Even more disheartening, Chiang failed to obtain Soviet support for his plan to attack Chinese warlords and create a unified state.

更让蒋失望的是，他打击军阀建立统一国家的计划没能获得苏联支持。

Adi Da Samraj: The circumstance of existence, in and of itself, is disheartening.

阿谛达至尊：存在的状况，只其本身，是另人沮丧的。

It's disheartening to see how many financial institutions lost sight of these basic truths.

非常痛心地看到这么多金融机构忽视了这些最基本的真理。

Punishing or firing someone that you've established an informal relationship with can be disheartening.

惩罚或是解雇某个曾经和你建立过交情的员工是很令人灰心和沮丧的。

About three years ago the malnutrition rate was about 12 percent there and to see that it's now 40 percent is very disheartening.

大约三年前，该地区的营养不良率大约是12%，现在则已经剧增至40%，这非常令人沮丧。

The reports paint a disheartening picture of the Afghan police and soldiers at the center of the American exit strategy.

报告描绘了阿富汗士兵及警察处于美国退出战略中心这一让人沮丧的画面。

"It was disheartening to find that the degree I worked so hard for and was so proud of was not seen as valuable by others, " says Sparkman.

“当我发现我努力学习获得的、我自己如此引以为傲的学位在别人看来却没有多大价值时，当时真得感觉很沮丧，”斯帕克曼说。

When asked about the flow of information from one part of the business to another, results were equally disheartening.

只有3%的人认为公司在这方面是同业中的翘楚。当被问及从这个部门到那个部门之间的信息流动，结果同样让人不忍卒读。

Her rejection by Yale had been disheartening, and the trip to Akron was a nightmare.

耶鲁令人沮丧地拒绝了她，而到阿克伦之行则更是一场恶梦。

It is disheartening to a speaker to feel like a conversation on the cell phone is more important than a face to face moment.

这会让谈话者沮丧的认为电话交谈比面对面的交谈更为重要。

The results of my informal, back-of-the-envelope calculations were rather disheartening.

根据我非正式的统计结果，我在信封背面所计算出的统计数值令人相当失望。

They made file-handling routines, string utilities, database access routines--the list of code duplication was disheartening!

他们也都做了文件处理程序，字符串工具集，数据库访问程序--这些列出来的重复编码是非常让人沮丧的！

Nothing is more disheartening than hearing about a great blog launch and only finding one post to read.

没有什么比听到一个伟大博客诞生却只能在上面找到一篇文章更让我心碎的了。