| 词汇 | demoralize |
| 释义 | demoralize verb[ T ] (UK usuallydemoralise)uk /dɪˈmɒr.ə.laɪz/ us /dɪˈmɔːr.ə.laɪz/ to make someone or something feel much less confident: 使泄气，使垂头丧气 Losing several games in a row had completely demoralized the team.连续输掉数场比赛使全队上下彻底泄了气。 Making people sad, shocked and upset aback amiss appal be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom bite bum haunt heartbreaker heartbreakingly hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom horrify nerve self-laceration sensitivity shake someone out of something shake someone up shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom shattering tear toxic demoralize | American Dictionarydemoralize verb[ T ] us/dɪˈmɔr·əˌlɑɪz, di-, -ˈmɑr-/ to weaken the confidence of someone: The team was tired and thoroughly demoralized. Examples of demoralizedemoralize Many people were demoralized, lost their sense of human dignity, and felt humiliated. Dealing with noncompliant patients in these situations often becomes a time-consuming, nonproductive, demoralizing undertaking. The facts become much less demoralizing if we conceive of the challenge from a cooperative perspective and the recognition that difficult choices must be made. Conversely, party workers and voters on the other side of such trends may have been demoralized by early trends. It might have provided a tonic to the home army's morale, or demoralized them with a spectacular disaster. The resulting constant pressures and demoralizing environment extinguish many courtesies and kindnesses that make human life tolerable. The military, the bulwark of state power, was seriously demoralized and organizationally weakened. Therefore, it seems likely that racism and discrimination would cause children to feel helpless, demoralized, and discouraged. More seriously they demoralized staff whose constant financial vigilance was essential to economy. Erring too far toward centralization will prove stifling, demoralizing, demotivating, and disempowering. This results in diminished relationship and demoralizes both patient and health professional. In applied linguistics, the questioning of unity is usually construed through objections to autonomous monolingual language policies imposed on a variety of hierarchically demoralized and subjugated linguistic minorities. The prospect of being unemployed and of being subjected to a new war, in a word the terrible uncertainty of the current situation, has a strongly demoralizing effect. Such activities would be a demoralizing public spectacle, analogous to tolerating the starvation on the public streets of poor wretches who had gambled unwisely with their lives in other ways. Radical pro-market reforms are typically introduced in response to economic crises when organized labour resistance is demoralized by high unemployment and the absence of viable alternatives. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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