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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It attracts worthwhile friends and discourages you enemies.
  它吸引值得你交往的朋友并且击败你的对手。
• 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。
• Other problems include a weak banking system, a poor business climate that discourages both domestic and foreign investors, corruption, and widespread lack of trust in institutions.
  其他问题包括不稳定的银行体制、不完善的商业体制等，阻碍了国内和国外的投资，导致了腐败和人民对公共机构缺乏信任。
• Price controls and export tariffs make production less profitable, which discourages increased supply and can make shortages worse.
  价格控制和出口关税降低了生产利润，阻碍了供应的增加，可能导致食品短缺加剧。
• This overhead discourages test teams from maintaining proper documentation to ensure a repeatable and consistent test effort.
  从维护适当的文档到确保可重复的且一致的测试工作，该开销阻碍了测试团队。
• Holding people accountable for flawed and faulty plans discourages people from taking the right actions when information becomes available.
  使人们对这个有缺陷不完善的计划负责通常会使他们打消采取正确行为的念头，即使当他们得知信息是可利用的。