灰心丧气 hui xin sang qi disheartened, discouraged

Explanation

形容因失败或不顺利而失去信心，意志消沉。

Describes the state of losing confidence and becoming depressed due to failure or setbacks.

Origin Story

小明参加了学校的编程比赛，他信心满满地准备了很久，编写了一个他认为非常优秀的程序。比赛当天，小明兴致勃勃地提交了作品，然而，结果却让他大失所望。他的程序出现了严重的错误，排名靠后，小明感到非常灰心丧气。他独自一人坐在教室里，看着其他同学兴奋地讨论，心中充满了沮丧。他开始怀疑自己的能力，觉得自己根本不适合编程。他甚至想过放弃编程，不再参加任何比赛。 几天后，小明的老师找到了他，鼓励他不要灰心丧气。老师告诉他，失败是成功之母，这次的失败并不能代表他的能力。老师还帮助小明分析了程序错误的原因，并指导他修改程序。小明听了老师的话，重拾了信心。他认真地分析了自己的错误，并努力改进程序。经过一段时间的努力，小明终于修复了程序，并在下一次比赛中取得了优异的成绩。

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Xiaoming participated in the school's programming competition. He had prepared for a long time with confidence and wrote a program that he considered excellent. On the day of the competition, Xiaoming excitedly submitted his work; however, the result was disappointing. His program had serious errors, and he ranked low. Xiaoming felt very disheartened. He sat alone in the classroom, watching other students excitedly discussing, his heart filled with frustration. He began to doubt his abilities, feeling that he was not suitable for programming at all. He even considered giving up programming and no longer participating in any competitions. A few days later, Xiaoming's teacher found him and encouraged him not to be disheartened. The teacher told him that failure is the mother of success, and this failure did not represent his abilities. The teacher also helped Xiaoming analyze the causes of the program errors and guided him to modify the program. After listening to his teacher, Xiaoming regained his confidence. He carefully analyzed his mistakes and worked hard to improve the program. After a period of hard work, Xiaoming finally fixed the program and achieved excellent results in the next competition.

Usage

通常作谓语、定语或状语，表示因失败或不顺利而失去信心，意志消沉。

tongchang zuo weiyuyu dingyu huo zhuangyu biaoshi yin shibai huo bushunli er shiqu xinxin yizhi xiaocheng

Usually used as a predicate, attributive, or adverbial to express the state of losing confidence and motivation due to failure or setbacks.

Examples

• 他考试失败后，变得灰心丧气。

  ta kaoshi shibai hou bian de hui xin sang qi

  He became disheartened after failing the exam.

• 屡战屡败，他灰心丧气地放弃了。

  lv zhan lv bai ta hui xin sang qi de fang qi le

  After repeated defeats, he gave up in discouragement.

Related Idioms

• 垂头丧气

• 心灰意冷

• 沮丧

Opposite Idioms

• 意气风发

• 踌躇满志

• 信心百倍