Dissuade
[dɪ'sweɪd] or [dɪ'swed]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) turn away from by persuasion; 'Negative campaigning will only dissuade people'.
埃德娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
(v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.
戴维斯整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Turn from a purpose, divert by persuasion.
整理:薇尔玛
同義詞及反義詞:
[See PERSUADE]
校對:西尔玛
解釋/意思:
v.t. to advise against: to try to divert from anything by advice or persuasion: to succeed in persuading not to.—ns. Dissuā′der; Dissuā′sion.—adj. Dissuā′sive tending to dissuade.—n. that which tends to dissuade.—adv. Dissuā′sively.—n. and adj. Dissuā′sory (rare).
埃迪校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I was firmly convinced that he ought not to marry you--therefore I tried to dissuade him by all the means in my power. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- My guardian did not seek to dissuade me, and I went. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- No one interfered to encourage or dissuade. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I tried to dissuade her ladyship from facing the severity of the weather. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- And then, luckily, I caught Father Grady, and I've asked him in to speak to them, and dissuade them from going off in a body. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The company tried to dissuade her--it was so terribly cold. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Henry wished to dissuade me; but, seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- He might be dissuaded, I should think. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But Sam was not to be dissuaded from the poetical idea that had occurred to him, so he signed the letter-- 'Your love-sick Pickwick. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Many of the crowd would have dissuaded him from touching a document so suspicious; but Higg was resolute in the service of his benefactress. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You are to understand, Miss Bennet, that I came here with the determined resolution of carrying my purpose; nor will I be dissuaded from it. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- He wrote forever dissuading us from such a course. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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