Discourage
[dɪs'kʌrɪdʒ] or [dɪs'kɝɪdʒ]
解释:
(verb.) deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged.
弗兰克编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
(v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
(n.) Lack of courage; cowardliness.
科迪莉亚整理
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1].Dishearten, dispirit, depress, deject.[2].Dissuade, deter, keep back.[3].Disfavor, discountenance, throw cold water upon, put a damper on.
整理:米莉
同义词及反义词：
[See ENCOURAGE]
整理:诺拉
解释:
v.t. to take away the courage of: to dishearten: to seek to check by showing disfavour to.—n. Discour′agement act of discouraging: that which discourages: dejection.—p.adj. Discour′aging disheartening depressing.—adv. Discour′agingly.
录入:卡利
例句:
- The superiority of coin above bullion would prevent the melting down of the coin, and would discourage its exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- You discourage me. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- You discourage me, he said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- He hoped that with intelligent assistance I should meet with little to discourage me, and should soon be able to dispense with any aid but his. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Those agricultural systems, on the contrary, really, and in the end, discourage their own favourite species of industry. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Have you ever heard of any projector or inventor who failed to find it all but inaccessible, and whom it did not discourage and ill-treat? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The table-cloths, and pillow-cases, and articles of that kind, are what discourage me most, Copperfield. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- It has grown discouraged, and stopped. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Educationally, emphasis may not be put on eternal truth, but it is put on the authority of book and teacher, and individual variation is discouraged. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- At the end of three-quarters of an hour he seemed a little shaken and discouraged, and stopped, and the red roach was taken out for that day and the pickerel left. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- At this time the North had become very much discouraged. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Poor Worcester was half blinded with his: and, seriously, a man going to be hanged could not well have appeared more discouraged or dismayed. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I stopped, then, discouraged. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Particularly significant are the stories that represent him as discouraging extreme mortification. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He would listen to the most pathetic appeals with the most discouraging politeness and equanimity. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Barlow was thus arriving at his discouraging conclusion, Prof. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- All this news was very discouraging. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The mysterious warnings and intimations of Cassy, so far from discouraging his soul, in the end had roused it as with a heavenly call. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- On this day (18th) the news was almost as discouraging to us as it had been two days before in the rebel capital. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- However, I hadn't any; and that part of the work is, at first, a little discouraging, I must allow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- That was in my green days, and I soon learned that the failure of an experiment never discourages him unless it is by reason of the carelessness of the man making it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It neither encourages nor discourages improvement. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- This might have been discouraging to some people; but, once embarked on a career of manifest usefulness, nothing discourages Me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Poverty, though it no doubt discourages, does not always prevent, marriage. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- By raising the rate of mercantile profit, the monopoly discourages the improvement of land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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