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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• It's very discouraging to be sneered at all the time.
  成天受嘲讽是很令人泄气的。
• 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；
• When you fail its easy to point out everything you did wrong, but that is so discouraging.
  当你失败时，很容易指出自己做错的事情，但是这样很让人沮丧。
• I shouldn't have made those discouraging remarks.
  我不该说那些泄气话。
• 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。