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discouraging

英 [dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒɪŋ]

美 [dɪsˈkɜːrɪdʒɪŋ]

v.  阻拦; 阻止; 劝阻; 使灰心; 使泄气; 使丧失信心
discourage的现在分词

现在分词:discouraging 

TOEFL

BNC.18639 / COCA.14782

柯林斯词典

  • VERB 使泄气;使灰心
    If someone or somethingdiscouragesyou, they cause you to lose your enthusiasm about your actions.
    1. It may be difficult to do at first. Don't let this discourage you.
      万事开头难,别因此而灰心。
  • VERB 打消…的念头;阻止;劝阻
    Todiscouragean action or todiscouragesomeonefromdoing it means to make them not want to do it.
    1. ...typhoons that discouraged shopping and leisure activities.
      使购物和休闲活动化为泡影的台风
    2. ...a campaign to discourage children from smoking.
      劝阻儿童远离香烟的运动

英英释义

adj

  • depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
    1. where never is heard a discouraging word
  • expressing disapproval

    双语例句

    • If you travel to another country you don't know, getting lost can be very frustrating and discouraging.
      如果你去一个陌生的国家旅行,迷路可能会让你很沮丧,很丧气。
    • Their attitude was very discouraging.
      他们的态度非常令人沮丧。
    • On the other hand, prohibition maintains high prices, discouraging heavy use and use by minors.
      另一方面,禁令的好处是,它维持了大麻的高价,从而减少了大量使用大麻和未成年人使用大麻的现象。
    • For now, even the most optimistic conservationists have to admit that the numbers are discouraging.
      现在,即使是最乐观的自然资源保护论者也不得不承认,这些数据令人沮丧。
    • Japan and southern Europe have clung to older ways, discouraging women from working and frowning on single-parent families;
      日本和南欧依赖旧的方式,不鼓励妇女工作并且不欢迎单亲家庭;
    • I know's it's discouraging to work on a project without visible results, but hang in there!
      我知道,致力于一项看不见成果的项目是令人沮丧的,但要坚持下去。
    • She claims that our prison system seems to create recidivists rather than discouraging criminals from reoffending.
      她称我们的监狱制度似乎在创造惯犯而并非教导罪犯不再犯法。
    • For years, the statistics related to failing projects and their related costs have been discouraging.
      多年来,有关失败的项目和相关费用的统计数字一直令人失望。
    • There are reasons for discouraging change when adverse economic impact far outweighs the advantages of change.
      这就是当不利的经济影响远远超过有利的变化的时候,阻碍变革的原因。
    • Equally important, it distorts the economy by discouraging adequate investment in either the agricultural or productive sector.
      同样重要的是,不论在农业还是生产部门中缺乏足够的投资歪曲了经济的发展。