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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

    • 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。
    • This herculean task was ultimately completed, but with discouraging slowness.
      这个极为艰巨的任务最终完成了,但是速度之慢令人沮丧。
    • It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results.
      这种看法鼓励对智力的偏见,而这种偏见已经带来了一些令人泄气的结果。
    • It's very discouraging to be sneered at all the time.
      成天受嘲讽是很令人泄气的。
    • 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。
    • What I have heard so far from Greek economists is deeply discouraging.
      迄今为止,我从希腊经济学家那里听到的建议非常令人失望。
    • Doing so you are discouraging us from further development.
      这样做只会影响作者在课程上的发展进度罢了。
    • It's a discouraging finding. But there's also some good news in this story: The brain can get confused in both directions.
      这是一个让人沮丧的发现。不过,它也带来了好消息:大脑可能在两个相反的方向上都会搞糊涂。
    • It appears buoyant and to you perhaps discouraging.
      还好像趋于上涨了,或许你很泄气。
    • Discouraging transfers between lines were deliberately built-in.
      线路间令人沮丧换乘故意被设置在内。