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discourage vt.阻碍；使气馁 (1) 通货膨胀阻碍储蓄的积累。(2) 一项反对种族歧视的新法律已被提出。(3) 不要让属下对你这样不拘礼仪。(4) 我从未对学习英语失去信心。(5) 他遇到困难和阻碍就容易泄气。 When you discourage someone, you try to talk them out of doing something, by pointing out reasons why their planned action would be unwise. The verb discourage has roots in the French word descouragier, which comes from des-, meaning “away,” and corage, or “courage.” So when you discourage someone, you can think of it as taking his courage — or enthusiasm — away.

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英 [dɪs'kʌrɪdʒ] 美 [dɪs'kɜːrɪdʒ] (1) Inflation discourages saving.(2) A new law has been brought in to discourage racial prejudice.(3) Try to discourage such familiarities from your subordinates.(4) I was never discouraged against learning English.(5) He is easily discouraged by difficulties and obstacles. If your friend is thinking about quitting her job and moving to the Peruvian Andes to raise llamas, you might discourage her by pointing out that she’s allergic to llamas and also afraid of heights. 1[VERB 动词]使泄气；使灰心 If someone or something discourages you, they cause you to lose your enthusiasm about your actions.   [V n]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。discouragedShe was determined not to be too discouraged.她决心不过于气馁。discouragingToday's report is rather more discouraging for the economy.今天的报道让人对经济更加丧失了信心。2[VERB 动词]打消…的念头；阻止；劝阻 To discourage an action or to discourage someone from doing it means to make them not want to do it.   [V n/-ing]  [V n from -ing]...typhoons that discouraged shopping and leisure activities.使购物和休闲活动化为泡影的台风...a campaign to discourage children from smoking.劝阻儿童远离香烟的运动

英语单词	discourage
英美音标	英 [dɪs'kʌrɪdʒ] 美 [dɪs'kɜːrɪdʒ]
中文释义	vt.阻碍；使气馁
英语例句	(1) Inflation discourages saving. (2) A new law has been brought in to discourage racial prejudice. (3) Try to discourage such familiarities from your subordinates. (4) I was never discouraged against learning English. (5) He is easily discouraged by difficulties and obstacles.
中文例句	(1) 通货膨胀阻碍储蓄的积累。 (2) 一项反对种族歧视的新法律已被提出。 (3) 不要让属下对你这样不拘礼仪。 (4) 我从未对学习英语失去信心。 (5) 他遇到困难和阻碍就容易泄气。
vocabulary简明	If your friend is thinking about quitting her job and moving to the Peruvian Andes to raise llamas, you might discourage her by pointing out that she’s allergic to llamas and also afraid of heights.
vocabulary扩展	When you discourage someone, you try to talk them out of doing something, by pointing out reasons why their planned action would be unwise. The verb discourage has roots in the French word descouragier, which comes from des-, meaning “away,” and corage, or “courage.” So when you discourage someone, you can think of it as taking his courage — or enthusiasm — away.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]使泄气；使灰心 If someone or something discourages you, they cause you to lose your enthusiasm about your actions. [V n] 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。 discouraged She was determined not to be too discouraged. 她决心不过于气馁。 discouraging Today's report is rather more discouraging for the economy. 今天的报道让人对经济更加丧失了信心。 2 [VERB 动词]打消…的念头；阻止；劝阻 To discourage an action or to discourage someone from doing it means to make them not want to do it. [V n/-ing] [V n from -ing] ...typhoons that discouraged shopping and leisure activities. 使购物和休闲活动化为泡影的台风 ...a campaign to discourage children from smoking. 劝阻儿童远离香烟的运动

Discourage Discouraged [V Pointing Action Enthusiasm Verb 动词