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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Research for improvement of chestnut has been discouraging and encouraging.
  栗树改良的研究工作曾令人失望又曾使人鼓舞。
• It was felt that each nation's self-interest was served by encouraging its exports and discouraging its imports.
  一般认为，鼓励出口和限制进口是符合每个国家的自身利益的。
• The response so far has been discouraging.
  答复到目前为止是令人泄气的。
• Your first batch of results may be discouraging, but never mind, they'll improve.
  你的第一批结果可能令人泄气，可是别在意，会好转的。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。