unsatisfying

英 [ˌʌnˈsætɪsfaɪɪŋ]

美 [ˌʌnˈsætɪsfaɪɪŋ]

adj.  不令人满意(或感到满足)的

现在分词：unsatisfying　

COCA.34515

牛津词典

adj.

• 不令人满意（或感到满足）的
  not giving you any satisfaction
  1. a shallow, unsatisfying relationship
     淡薄而不令人满意的关系

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不令人满意的
  If you find somethingunsatisfying, you do not get any satisfaction from it.
  1. Rose says so far the marriage has been unsatisfying...
     罗丝说到目前为止她的婚姻并不令人满意。
  2. The boredom is caused as much by people's unsatisfying home lives as by lack of work.
     不幸福的家庭生活和失业都会导致心生倦怠。

英英释义

adj

• not up to expectations
  1. a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising
  Synonym:disappointingdissatisfactory

双语例句

• Shakespeare produces a very unsatisfying deus ex machina in'the winter's tale ', when, at the very end of the play, a statue turns out to be a real woman.
  莎士比亚在《冬天的故事》中制造了一个很不能令人满意的大团圆结局：在戏剧的最末处，一尊雕塑变成了一个真的女人。
• When I was in my20s, I had boyfriends, but overall my love life was somewhat unsatisfying.
  当我20多岁的时候，我有过几任男友，但整体而言我的恋爱生活总是不能尽如我意。
• While a life bent on instant pleasure and gratification offers some degree of happiness, it is ultimately unsatisfying on its own, he says.
  他说，当一个人倾向于片刻的欢乐和与因满意而在某种程度上的开心时，这并不能从根本上使他满足。
• At times, our achievements may [ seem] incomplete and unsatisfying, but we are committed to seeing this through, and we believe the world is depending on our success.
  有时，我们的成就可能看似不彻底、不能令人满意。然而，我们有决心完成这项事业。
• Some previously employed also come back after a short, unsatisfying, work experience.
  而先前一些已就业的学生在经历了短暂且不愉快的工作生活后也加入了此行列。
• But in the end the book proves unsatisfying on several levels.
  然而，这本书最终在几个层面上被证明是令人失望的。
• Life is either hard and satisfying or easy and unsatisfying.
  生活要么是困难而令人满足，要么是轻松却让人不满足。
• Although Perl scripts are powerful, they produce a Web interface that lacks a graphical front end and forces the user to type information instead of using the mouse, which can be an unsatisfying experience for the customer.
  尽管Perl脚本的功能非常强大，但它产生的Web界面却缺少图形化前端，用户必须键入信息，而不能使用鼠标，对于客户来说，这一点非常不尽人意。
• Geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists and religious scholars have all taken stabs at answering, with unsatisfying results.
  这个问题遗传学家、生理学家、心理学家和宗教学者都曾试图回答，结果却都不令人满意。
• Sometimes it can be a handy ( forgive me) tool, but other times it can be so acutely unsatisfying that it only makes you feel worse in the end.
  有时是蛮便利的工具（请原谅我），有时却令人无法满足，过后只让你觉得更糟。