| 词汇 | take-the-wind-out-of-sails |
| 释义 | take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom (alsoknock the wind out of sb's sails, knock the wind out of sb) to make someone feel less confident or less determined to do something, usually by saying or doing something that they are not expecting: 使（某人）泄气；使（某人）不坚定 I was all ready to tell him that the relationship was over when he greeted me with a big bunch of flowers - that took the wind out of my sails.我已经准备好要告诉他我们分手吧，可他捧着一大束花向我迎来——这让我的心又软了下来。 Discouraging and putting off aversive dampen someone's enthusiasm dampen someone's spirits dampener on something daunt deter deterrence deterrent discourage discouragement dishearten disheartening dishearteningly disincentive emasculate emasculation spoil someone's partyidiom spoke throw cold water on somethingidiom unencouraging |
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