灰心丧气 get disheartened [disappointed]; get discouraged; feel depressed; lose heart or become dispirited 别让失败使你灰心丧气。 don't let defeat fill you with gloom
丧气 [口语] (倒霉; 不吉利) be unlucky; be out of luck; have bad luck
灰心 lose heart; be discouraged; be disappointed; be disheartened 再度陷入灰心沮丧之中 plunge back into the deepest discouragement; 不要灰心! don't be discouraged!; don't lose your heart
It is told that the man kept that gold box by his bed for years and whenever he was discouraged , he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there 据说爸爸一直把那个盒子放在床边,每当他灰心丧气的时候,他都会回忆起女儿的吻,想起女儿放在盒子里的爱。
An understanding of general characteristics of science as well as specific scientific concepts is easier to attain if one knows something about the things that excite and frustrate the scientist 如果一个人知道那些使科学家激动不已和灰心丧气的东西,那就比较容易了解科学的一般(普遍)特征以及特殊科学概念。