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

• 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。
• For example, she discourages the cycle of trying to have more money, so you can do what you want in life, so you will be happier.
  例如，她曾试图劝阻周期更多的钱，所以你可以做你想要的生活，所以你会更幸福。
• What discourages me from going camping is the rain!
  阻止我去露营的就是这场雨！
• It discourages me that every time I try to ride a bicycle I fall off.
  我每次骑自行车都跌倒真让人沮丧。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Encourages self-monitoring& discourages reliance on teacher.
  鼓励学生自我管理，减少对老师的依赖。
• Tampering with carton is easily detected. I should say that this rather discourages pilferage.
  纸箱弄破是容易检查出来的，我说这恰恰成为阻碍偷盗的因素。