I’m sure she had no idea how disheartening her well-intentioned statement sounded

我肯定她没有想到她那番好意的话叫人听了有多么泄气。

Many of the early attempts at machine translation were therefore disheartening failures

许多机器翻译的早期尝试都令人泄气地失败了。

It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such shameful means resorted to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead in their graves, and defiling their honoured names with slander

用毁谤故人，以谰言玷污其美名的的下流手段，来掠取政治上的成功，使有道德的人见了甚为痛心。

VERONICA PELLEGRIN: “Getting the letter and seeing [you] will no longer be employed, your services will no longer be required -- it is very disheartening , to say the least, and frustrating.”

佩勒格林：“收到裁员信，看到自己不再被聘用，不再被需要 -- 这令人非常沮丧，至少是非常挫败。”

DRIVING throughSouth Africacan be like taking a disheartening trip back in time. Twenty years after introducing full democracy, the racist geography of the apartheid era is stubbornly unchanged.

在南非境内驾车，犹如一场时空倒退的旅行。二十年前，南非就倡导完全民主，二十年后，南非的种族歧视和种族隔离并未得到一丝一毫改变。

“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。

“It is certainly disheartening news about the economy, ” said David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities International in New York.

“对经济面来说这的确是令人沮丧的消息，”野村证券驻纽约首席分析师DavidResler说。

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。

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。

The weeks from Vienna to the 22nd Party Congress had nevertheless been cruel and disheartening .

从维也纳会谈到苏共二十二次代表大会之间的那几周，一直是严峻和令人沮丧的。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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？

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。

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。

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。

Its unravelling was swift and disheartening , and brings Thailand back to the brink of further unrest.

事件的解决方案迅速却使人沮丧，它使泰国再次回到了进一步动荡局面的边缘。

I find these developments disheartening , even though I cheerfully admit to being a member ofthe Google-using majority.

我觉得事态发展让人沮丧，虽然我也是用Google的多数派之一。

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。

One represents a disheartening long-term pattern, the other an encouraging recent trend.

一件代表一种令人沮丧的长期模式，另一件则暗示着近期趋势。

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。