Lofty goals often inspire business teams, while they often demoralize engineering teams.(高的目標通常可以激勵商業組，同時他們經常受挫于工程組。)

They are difficult to understand and frustrate and demoralize those unlucky enough to have to work with them.(他們很難理解并受挫，為那些不幸的人感到沮喪，不得不和他們一起工作。)

Setting the goals so high was his method of keeping us motivated, and unfortunately it worked to demoralize the team instead.(把目標定得很高是他用來激勵我們的方法，但不幸的是這反而打消了我們團隊的士氣。)

It's almost as if it was made as thin as it is purely to demoralize would-be competitors.(看起來做這么薄好像純粹是為了讓潛在的競爭者抓狂。)

If you wait to fire them, you'll run out of money, demoralize your top performers, and lose credibility.(如果你只是期待著解雇他們，你將會耗盡財力，不但優秀員工的士氣低落，而且你也會在他們心中失去信譽。)

Unlike her predecessors, she however refuses to let her boss's impossible demands demoralize her and tries to see the fashion world through Miranda's eyes, keeping her feet still firmly on the ground.(與她的前任，她卻拒絕讓她的老板是不可能打擊她的要求，并試圖通過看時尚界米蘭達的眼睛，使她的腳還是堅定地在地上。)

That is what happens when you poison your growth through letting others diminish, marginalize and demoralize you from reaching your potential.(是你自己讓別人影響你的成長，使你的潛力無法發揮。)

Part pop psychology, part human-resources jargon, the term microinequities puts a name on all the indirect offenses that can demoralize a talented employee.(部份大眾心理學、部份人力資源的行話「細微忽視」，發生在所有導致優秀員工士氣低落的間接冒犯。)

Clearly, one of the objectives is to demoralize the enemy troops in any way they can.(很清楚，目的之一是他們想盡一切辦法瓦解敵軍的士氣。)

When Lee invaded the North, his hope was that he could get far enough in, win a great battle, demoralize the Northern will to fight, and then there would be pressure on Lincoln to stop the war.(當羅伯特李入侵北方時，他希望他能夠深入北方并贏得一場偉大的戰役，瓦解北方人戰斗的意志，最終使林肯不得不下令停止戰爭。)

To debase, demoralize, and debilitate human nature.