discourages

英 [dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒɪz]

美 [dɪsˈkɜːrɪdʒɪz]

v.  阻拦; 阻止; 劝阻; 使灰心; 使泄气; 使丧失信心
discourage的第三人称单数

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

双语例句

• Sure, and in the tuning process we will try to find an amount of experience that discourages this.
  肯定会有人这么做，我们会在在调整过程中设法找出能阻止这类行为的损失经验的数量。
• Such an unsettled political climate inevitably discourages foreign investment.
  这样动荡的政治气候不可避免地会阻碍外国投资。
• Light discourages them, they need the darkness.
  光会阻拦他们，他们需要黑暗。
• Beijing also has increased requirements for severance payments, which discourages layoffs unless business drops severely.
  北京也要求越来越高的遣散费，除非业务下降严重，否则不鼓励裁员。
• Citing portability, performance, and inconvenience, the PHP documentation discourages the use of magic_quotes.
  由于magicquotes导致可移植性、性能和易用性方面的问题，所以PHP文档不鼓励使用它。
• Fear of discrimination, or worse, discourages many mothers from using existing health resources.
  对歧视或更严重反应的惧怕，抑制了许多妇女利用现有医疗资源的勇气。
• Our tax code discourages work and entrepreneurship, saving and investment, and distorts the allocation of capital.
  美国的税收规则挫败了人们在工作与创业、储蓄与投资方面的积极性，并扭曲了资本分配。
• All of the extra effort in wasted syntax discourages their use.
  多余句子结构所需的过多的额外处理阻碍了对匿名类的使用。
• This discourages students in rural areas from pursuing further education, with additional differential impacts on girls and minorities.
  这严重影响了乡下学生进一步深造的积极性，对于女生和少数民族学生来说，情况更糟。
• The head of the Indian Council of international economic relations, Rajiv Kumar, says lack of adequate infrastructure holds back growth and discourages investors& both domestic and foreign.
  印度国际经济关系理事会的负责人拉吉夫.库玛尔说，基础设施匮乏阻碍了经济增长，同时也令国内和国外投资者望而却步。