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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This herculean task was ultimately completed, but with discouraging slowness.
  这个极为艰巨的任务最终完成了，但是速度之慢令人沮丧。
• 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；
• It appears buoyant and to you perhaps discouraging.
  还好像趋于上涨了，或许你很泄气。