1.making you lose the hope, enthusiasm, or interest you had earlier
1.For Mr Vajpayee, who once said that his life's ambition was to see India take its place as a great nation, it must be very dispiriting.
对瓦杰帕伊（Vajpayee）来说，有人曾说他的志向就是看着印度成为大国，这一定让他非常沮丧。
2.Perhaps most dispiriting of all, virtually none of those interviewed acknowledges responsibility for what was done.
或许最令人气馁的是，事实上没有一个受访者承认对自己的所作所为负有责任。
3.There are few things more dispiriting, they say, than hearing of a woman's cries for help and being unable to find her.
他们说，听到一个女人哭着求助，却怎么都找不到她，这总让他们沮丧到极点。
4.Dispiriting experiences like this will quickly damage the reputation of UK higher education abroad.
这种令人沮丧的经历将很快损害英国高等教育在海外的声誉。
5.A while ago I had a dispiriting conversation with another eminent European scientist.
刚才，我和另一位著名的欧洲科学家进行了一次令人沮丧的谈话。
6.We seek happiness, but too much of it leads to sorrow. We fly from suffering because too much of it is dispiriting.
快乐，是人之所求但太乐则乐极生悲忧苦，是人之所厌但太苦则无以奋志。
7.This policy is intended to conserve energy for more important challenges, but getting knocked out does appear to be dispiriting.
这种政策意在为重要比赛保存体力，但出局确实不是什么开心事。
8.Dispiriting research, he says, indicates that MBA students actually become less ethical over the course of their education.
他表示，一些令人沮丧的研究成果表明，在他们受教育期间，MBA学生的伦理水平越来越低。
9.Even as late as the early 1990s, watching television in the Arab world was a dispiriting business.
直到上世纪90年代初，看电视在阿拉伯世界里都还是让人提不起精神的事。
10.For the United States and the people of its beleaguered Gulf Coast, a dispiriting summer of oil and anger lies dead ahead.
对美国及被围困的墨西哥湾人民，必将面临为石油和愤怒充斥的令人沮丧的夏天。