disempowering
adjective uk/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈpaʊ.ə.rɪŋ/ us/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈpaʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
剥夺权力
making you feel that you have no control over your life and no power to change things
It's very disempowering to have everything done for you by your parents. 让父母为你做所有事情是非常令人沮丧的。
See: disempower
Compare: empowering
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- The process has been completely disempowering for young people.
- There's traditionally been nothing more disempowering than becoming a hospital patient.
- Telling people they have a chronic mental illness can be a disempowering message.
- Some of your critics have said that what you do is disempowering to women and they have problems with it.