心灰意冷
xīn huī yì lěng
Pinyin
Definition
心灰意冷
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- discouraged
- downhearted
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一心一德
- 1 of one heart and one mind (idiom)
一心二用
- 1 to do two things at once (idiom)
- 2 to multitask
- 3 to divide one's attention
一意孤行
- 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
- 2 willful
- 3 one's own way
- 4 dogmatic
一门心思
- 1 to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
三心二意
- 1 in two minds about sth (idiom)
- 2 half-hearted
- 3 shilly-shallying
Sample Sentences
遇到像老Q样擅长刁难揩油的，就不好好给你解释，让你把腿跑细，跑到心灰意冷，要么放弃办理，要么给他送礼；
such as meeting someone like Old Q, who wouldn't take time to explain things to you, who is good at making things difficult in order to take advantage of you. He lets you run your legs off, run until you are disappointed, until you either give up or give gifts to him;