意志消沉 meaning in Chinese
demoralized; despondent; hypobulia; funk one's heart
Examples
- The elasticity of his heart had been crushed out of him by early sorrows .
过去的一件件伤心事已经弄得他意志消沉。 - But that three-day combination of events had left him exhausted and melancholy .
但这三天来这么多事情搅在一起把他搞得精疲力竭，意志消沉。 - To me it was his broken spirit that expressed itself, and i rebelled against his renunciation .
这一番话听着象是他意志消沉的自白，我不同意他这种自暴自弃的态度。 - To sink under trouble is to double the weight, and he that will die in it, shall die in it .
遇到困难就意志消沉下去那就等于增加双倍的困难，自愿死在困难里面的人是必定会死在里头的。 - He was an instance of complete baseness of spirit, imperious, cruel, and relentless when uppermost, adject and low-spirited when down .
他是个无耻之徒的典范，当他占了优势，得意的时候，就横暴，残忍无情；被压倒的时候，就沮丧，就意志消沉。