There is something a little dispiriting about the beauty parade on certain sorts of social media.

社交媒体上美女如云，这确实会让人有点沮丧自卑。

What could be more painful or dispiriting than a crucifixion?

还有什么能比耶稣受难更痛苦和绝望的呢？

What could be more dispiriting than being in pain while feeling trapped at work?

还有什么比在工作中陷入痛苦更令人沮丧的呢？

From close-up, over long periods of time, almost everyone is condemned to be pretty dispiriting and difficult.

我们仔细来看，在很长一段时间里，几乎每个人都注定是相当沮丧和困难的。

He added that it is dispiriting when people think all cops are abusive and use excessive force.

他补充说，当人们认为所有的警察都虐待他人，滥用武力时，这是令人沮丧的。

But one of the worlds most famous musicians has just given the BBC a rather dispiriting message.

但是世界著名的顶级音乐人在接受BBC采访时，表示当前的音乐市场并不尽如人意。

When the shake-out comes, history offers two dispiriting examples of how a consumerfriendly boom can turn into a stitch-up.

当经济衰退来临时，历史提供了两个令人沮丧的例子，说明了消费友好型的繁荣如何转变为一种弥补。

Even in normal times, attending housing court in America is a dispiriting encounter with the judicial system.

即使是在平时，美国民众也会觉得出庭住房法院这样与司法系统打交道的遭遇令人沮丧。

Yeah, that is a pretty dispiriting thought.

是的，这是一个非常令人沮丧的想法。

Were they afraid that the kinds of ambiguities that you were raising would be dispiriting to your readers?

他们是否担心您提出的含糊之处会让您的读者感到沮丧？

It could be oddly dispiriting, the blank refusal of humankind to even attempt to function responsibly.

这可能令人沮丧，人类甚至拒绝尝试负责任地运作。

But at once came the dispiriting realization that even if somebody looked into the compartment, he would be neither seen nor heard.

可是，紧接着他又万分沮丧地意识到，即使有人往车厢里看一眼，也不会看见他或听见他的声音。

His father, who did dispiriting service in the Soviet Ground Forces in East Germany during the Cold War, tried to talk him out of it.

他的父亲曾在冷战期间在东德的苏联地面部队服役，服役经历令人沮丧，父亲试图说服他放弃。

Low pay and grueling hours aren't just dispiriting for individuals; they fuel the brain drain that has contributed to Congress's crippling lack of institutional knowledge.

低薪和艰苦的工作时间不仅让个人感到沮丧，还加剧了人才流失，导致国会严重缺乏制度性知识。

Betsy doesn't get the interview, and she tells me how that can be dispiriting.

贝特西没有接受采访，她告诉我这令人沮丧。

Even more dispiriting would be the spectacle of a judge pronouncing a family's eviction by video conference in the midst of an epidemic that has killed 190,000 Americans.

一场疫情造成了19万美国人死亡，而令人更加沮丧的是，疫情期间，一位法官通过视频会议宣布驱逐一个家庭。

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting.

我们也许会本能地认为，我们不可能发现世界上的一切，这是一件令人泄气的事，甚至是一件令人可怕的事，但这同样可以被看成是一件极其激动人心的事。

The experience was dispiriting for Keynes, who wrote a number of scathing essays in the 1920s, pointing out the risks of the agreement and of the post-war economic system more generally.

这段经历令凯恩斯大失所望，促使他在20年代写了一系列尖锐的文章，从更为宏观的角度，指出了这些协议以及战后经济体系的风险。

Yet, we know that as many as 35% of U.S. and U.K. males under 50 will be struggling with it to a degree they themselves find somewhat dispiriting in their reflexive moments.

然而，我们知道，多达 35% 的 50 岁以下的美国和英国男性将为此苦苦挣扎，以至于他们自己在反省时会感到有些沮丧。

" Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting" .

“ 不仅仅是因为隔离，还因为种族冲突， 光是看到这届政府，日复一日地看着它的虚伪，就令人沮丧” 。