| 词汇 | discourage |
| 释义 | discourage verb[ T ] uk /dɪˈskʌr.ɪdʒ/ us /dɪˈskɝː.ɪdʒ/ discourageverb[T] (MAKE LESS CONFIDENT)B2 to make someone feel less confident, enthusiastic, and positive about something, or less willing to do something: 使泄气，给…泼冷水，使心灰意冷 The thought of how much work she had to do discouraged her.一想到还有那么多工作得做她就泄了气。 Opposite encourage Don't let me discourage you if it's what you want to do. Her criticism had discouraged him. Don't let her comments discourage you. It discouraged me to hear so little enthusiasm for the project. I don't want to discourage her - merely inject a note of realism. Discouraging and putting off aversive dampen someone's enthusiasm dampen someone's spirits dampener on something daunt deter deterrence deterrent discouragement discouraging disheartening dishearteningly disincentive emasculate emasculation pour/throw cold water on somethingidiom spoke take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom throw cold water on somethingidiom unencouraging discourageverb[T] (PREVENT)B2 to prevent or try to prevent something happening or someone doing something, by making things difficult or unpleasant, or by showing disapproval: （试图）阻挠，为…设置障碍，阻止 a campaign to discourage people from smoking阻止人们吸烟的运动 The authorities have put tanks on the streets to discourage any protest.当局调动坦克上街以阻止抗议活动。 Opposite encourage We need tougher penalties to discourage miscreants. Leaving an outside light on after dark can discourage a potential burglar. Police fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowds and to discourage looters who ransacked shops and set fire to cars. A new campaign is aimed at discouraging children from watching too much television. The shop employs uniformed security guards to discourage shoplifters. Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably fireproof flameproof guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom head off preclusion preclusive prejudice prevent preventable scuttle smother suffocate Related worddiscouraging discourage | American Dictionarydiscourage verb[ T ] us/dɪˈskɜr·ɪdʒ, -ˈskʌr-/ discourageverb[T] (MAKE LESS CONFIDENT)to cause someone to feel less confident or less hopeful: She sometimes got discouraged about her social life, which was going nowhere, she felt. discourageverb[T] (PREVENT)to try to prevent something from happening or someone from doing something, or to have the effect of making something less likely: We tried to discourage him from spending so much money. Higher taxes could discourage business investment. The tough competition discourages many athletes from making a serious attempt to make the Olympic team. Examples of discouragediscourage Relations among peripheral groups are often competitive, a situation that may not be discouraged by the primate center. Reactions ranged from deliberately avoiding information to expressing the temptation not to gather information due to how discouraging it made the prognosis feel. Moreover, the procedural changes led to an ever-greater focalizing on the innovative activity and discouraged those applicants who presented grandiose but totally unrealistic projects. There was a second way in which social services systems potentially discouraged carers from having an assessment. Such practices should be discouraged as they will overestimate the role of certain foods in disease. As a result, the impaired limb is encouraged to steer while the unimpaired limb is actively discouraged. Occasional administration by staff who are not specifically trained in this procedure should be discouraged. Competition among asset managers is discouraged if their main function is to meet quantitative asset restrictions. Vehicles are strongly discouraged from approaching closer than 50 m from seals, and closer approaches should be on foot. Thus, an increase in 0 raises the fixed costs of learning and discourages switching. Therefore, weaker intellectual protection discourages the first kind of creativity to the advantage of the second. A policy environment had been established that discouraged savings and investment, and made rentseeking a basic requirement of daily survival. The ' institution of transfer ', in my view, should as far as possible be discouraged. Teachers are encouraged to do research; however, they are quickly discouraged from any sort of replication. However, there very likely is a scarcity of specie, which generates inefficiency and discourages production. See all examples of discourage These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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