disheartened

基本解釋

He must not show any signs of fear to his family as they would become disheartened.
他絕不能在家人面前表現(xiàn)出一點害怕的跡象，因為他們會灰心。
Last year’s VAT increase may have disheartened consumers but it allowed a cut in payroll taxes.
去年增值稅上升也許使消費者很沮喪，但它降低了總體稅額。
Code junkies may be disheartened by how much less code needs to be written for a variety of scenarios, while the rest of us will have more time for Battlestar Galactica reruns.
由于不必手工編寫各種各樣預定格式的代碼，代碼編寫狂們可能會感到沮喪，而我們就可以有更多的時間來享受我們的生活了。

The Haitian people feel abandoned and disheartened by the slowness with which rebuilding is taking place.
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The students involved in the 1989 unrest were also disheartened by grim job prospects.
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If you are disheartened, you feel disappointed about something and have less confidence or less hope about it than you did before.