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

• 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。
• 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。
• The unsatisfying answers illustrate why markets suddenly have become so volatile.
  这些没有答案的问题表明，市场为什么会突然变得如此波动。
• It would have been an easy hit, but the song was such an obvious unsatisfying self-homage, they decided not to release it.
  如果面世的话，它将很容易走红，但这首歌是一种明显的自我崇拜，他们很不满意，所以决定不予发布。
• 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。
• And as you might expect, watching too much TV is correlated with unsatisfying relationships.
  正如你所预期，沉迷于电视和对情感关系的不满意是相关联的。
• 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。
• Many people think they know the right way to go about picking an occupation, but they often wind up choosing a career that is unsatisfying.
  很多人都认为自己知道正确的择业方法，但是最后都选择了自己不满意的职位。
• 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。
• More and more people are laking holism seriously because they find materialism unsatisfying.
  越来越多的人开始相信整体论，因为他们发现物质主义不能令人满意。