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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

    • 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。
    • Discouraging transfers between lines were deliberately built-in.
      线路间令人沮丧换乘故意被设置在内。
    • It's very discouraging to be sneered at all the time.
      成天受嘲讽是很令人泄气的。
    • 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。
    • 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;
    • We need to make sure our'honking'is encouraging, not discouraging.
      我们要确保我们的话语是鼓励性的,而不是打击性的。
    • I shouldn't have made those discouraging remarks.
      我不该说那些泄气话。
    • Why are you always so discouraging about my chances of getting a job?
      你为什么对我有否机会得到工作,老是这么爱泼冷水?
    • That realization, instead of being discouraging, was liberating.
      那个认识,代替了原先的气馁,将我完全的解放了。
    • 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。