1. 令人气馁:call the shots发号施令,操纵 | 12. dispiriting令人气馁 | footage镜头
1. For the United States and the people of its beleaguered Gulf Coast, a dispiriting summer of oil and anger lies dead ahead.
2. The picture of youth employment in the EU is dispiriting and is only expected to get worse over the coming months.
3. Updating for newsprint editions tended to be dispiriting because some material would inevitably be lost.
4. Even so, a battered public seems discouraged by the onslaught of dispiriting things.
5. The experience can be profoundly dispiriting, even if the service is reliable enough.
6. The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome had a dispiriting effect on restaurant boss Li Juan before June because of the sharp drop in customers.
7. Across the region, markets seemed to shrug of more dispiriting economic data and focus on fresh stimulus plans.
8. And " buzzkill ", something or someone with a dispiriting effect.
9. The most dispiriting thing to come out of Australia's capitulation in the fourth Test was not the final day batting collapse.
adj
1. dispiriting
1. destructive of morale and self-reliance
Synonym: demoralizing demoralising disheartening