demoralize

单词demoralize

基本解释

v.: 使泄气；使意志消沉；使士气低落
网络: 士气受挫；挫折锐气；败坏

权威解释

• 使泄气；使意志消沉；使士气低落:

  to make sb lose confidence or hope

英汉解释

• 挫折锐气;【军事】使士气沮丧

• 败坏风纪[道德],伤风败俗

• 士气受挫

• 使陷入混乱

• 使…陷于混乱;富有败坏性

• 使士气低落,丧失斗志,使灰心丧气;人心涣散,使…扫兴

词性分析

• 第三人称单数：demoralizes

• 现在分词：demoralizing

• 过去分词：demoralized

同义词

v.disheartenunderminedeflatedispiritdiscourage

反义词

v.encourage

例句

• Her soul that of a woman whom the turbulent experiences of the last year or two had quite failed to demoralize.

  她的灵魂，是一个纯洁贞坚的妇人的，虽然有过近一两年来那样纷扰骚乱的经验，而却完全没有腐化堕落。

• Hitherto, the Communist land reform had been a powerful agent in helping demoralize the peasant soldiers in the Kuomintang armies.

  国民党军队的士兵都是农民出身，共产党所搞的土地改革，在瓦解他们的士气方面一直起着重大的作用。

• If you wait to fire them, you"ll run out of money, demoralize your top performers, and lose credibility.

  如果你只是期待着解雇他们，你将会耗尽财力，不但优秀员工的士气低落，而且你也会在他们心中失去信誉。

• I"d rather cut my throat than demoralize you on a day like this.

  我情愿割断自己的脖子，也不想在这样的日子使你扫兴。

• A team leader must have the courage to intervene on the team"s behalf when obstacles that might cripple or demoralize the team arise.

  当出现某些障碍影响了团队发展或者挫败团队的士气时，团队的领导者必须有勇气代表团队挺身而出。

• Lofty goals often inspire business teams, while they often demoralize engineering teams.

  高的目标通常可以激励商业组，同时他们经常受挫于工程组。

• People have to make a living. But the problem with relying on rules and incentives is that they demoralize professional activity.

  但是依赖规矩和激励的问题在于它们使人们对工作觉得很没意思。

• Now, however, to recognize that leadership would be to demoralize the people and lose their mass support.

  而如果现在还承认蒋介石的领导，无疑只会使人民泄气，得不到群众的拥护。

• Nothing will demoralize your folks more quickly and cause them to jump ship the first chance they get than poor treatment.

  事实上，没有什么比糟糕的待遇更能瓦解士气，否则员工一有机会就跳槽离开。

• Rumors of impending sanctions can demoralize .

  即将采取制裁的谣言能使士气低落。