| 词汇 | discouragement |
| 释义 | discouragement noun uk /dɪˈskʌr.ɪdʒ.mənt/ us /dɪˈskɝː.ɪdʒ.mənt/ discouragementnoun (MAKING LESS CONFIDENT)[ C or U ] the state of having lost your confidence or enthusiasm for something: 泄气，垂头丧气，心灰意冷 a feeling of discouragement心灰意冷的感觉 Discouraging and putting off aversive dampen someone's enthusiasm dampen someone's spirits dampener on something daunt deter deterrence deterrent discourage 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 discouragementnoun (PREVENTING)[ U ] actions to prevent or try to prevent something from happening or someone from doing something: 阻止…发生；劝阻…做某事 the discouragement of any direct action阻止任何直接行动 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 discouragement | American Dictionarydiscouragement noun[ U ] us/dɪˈskər·ɪdʒ·mənt, -ˈskʌr-/ a feeling of being less confident or less hopeful: He had known discouragement and failure, but in the end he persevered and wound up with a successful business. Examples of discouragementdiscouragement If one is discouraged by the first discouragements, one will never get anywhere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he now take immediate steps, in view of this wrong diagnosis and fiscal discouragements on overseas investments, to remove these fiscal discouragements? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our policy, therefore, rests upon the twin pillars of providing incentives and removing discouragements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such discouragements were bad enough in my day in local government. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We tax him higher than any of his overseas counterparts and, for good measure, promise him additional discouragements in the autumn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that, by and large, our manufacturing costs are competitive in the export markets; but there are some impediments and discouragements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our intention is that it should largely eliminate any discouragements to expansion by small and medium-sized companies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There should be many more discouragements to people getting married when they are pregnant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Fourthly, as a result of all those discouragements it is clear from the figures that the system is not working. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Can we not agree between us to remove the discouragements to commercial success which politics seem constantly to impose? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must try to remove all these marginal discouragements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Together, despite difficulties, disappointments and downright discouragements—some unavoidable and some man-made—they have already achieved great, though unspectacular, things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our discouragements as well as our successes ought to be recorded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have met with difficulties and discouragements of various kinds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under present discouragements it is utterly impossible for anybody ever again to accumulate money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of discouragement 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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