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美:[dɪs'kʌrɪdʒɪŋlɪ]
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词根:discourage
adj.discouraged 气馁的
discouraging 使人沮丧的;令人气馁的
n.discouragement 气馁;挫折;劝阻
v.discouraged 劝阻(discourage的过去分词);使失去勇气
discouraging 沮丧(discourage的ing形式);失去勇气
vt.discourage 阻止;使气馁
verb
transitive verb
to deprive of courage or confidence : dishearten
was discouraged by repeated failure
to hinder by disfavoring
trying to discourage absenteeism
to dissuade or attempt to dissuade from doing something
tried to discourage her from going
Middle English discoragen, from Middle French descorager, from Old French descoragier, from des- dis- + corage courage
The first known use of discourage was in the 15th century
discourageverb
to lessen the courage or confidence of : dishearten
didn't let losing discourage me
to make less likely or appealing : deter
laws that discourage speeding
to advise against a course of action : dissuade
discouraged careless work
1 Sometimes, despite all the acceptance and gentle-eyed self-appraisal, you put on your best tight-as-you-dare dress to find — discouragingly, irrefutably — that when you walk, your rump looks like two hams rumbling in a sack.
2 Though the girls knew the general locality where the package had been buried, all of the dunes looked discouragingly alike.
3 More recently, as understanding of the pandemic develops, that metric is shifting, discouragingly, to months – even years.
4 More discouragingly, they had double-digit leads in three of those before frittering them away.
5 The list is discouragingly long: crumbling infrastructure, inadequate educational performance, stifling regulation and a cumbersome tax system.
6 Gas station signs are showing some discouragingly high numbers these days, with gas prices nationally now averaging $2.84 a gallon — up 40 cents from a year ago and the highest mark since 2014.
7 “It’s discouragingly easy to nudge them in that direction.”
8 The area's dry climate discourages agriculture.
9 But, as many researchers and runners have noted, running-related injuries have remained discouragingly common, with more than half of all runners typically being felled each year.
10 This is a discouragingly limp movie where nothing is at stake.
11 He located Hubbard Glacier, which looked discouragingly far away from Seward.
12 The idea that sustainability is still the message, but that all local or grass-fed may not be the answer, is discouragingly hard for some to accept.
13 But the woman’s experience demonstrates that even when older people decide to seek treatment, finding and affording therapy can prove discouragingly difficult.
14 His weak and passive rhetorical reaction to the beheading of American journalist James Foley was a discouragingly missed opportunity.
15 It was discouragingly fine and handsome to the girl.
16 When she came to grips with the land, then its wild unfriendliness was revealed, and the magnitude of the task ahead of her was made discouragingly plain.
17 Here, there is talk not of imminent innovation but of discouragingly minute work proceeding on many slow-moving fronts over decades.
18 It's a discouragingly familiar strategy.
这是一种令人沮丧的熟悉伎俩。
19 Scotty called "This calls for an expert," Rick said discouragingly The timber had given way.
20 He emerges almost by accident when he stumbles across a villain, a discovery that sets him and the story down a path that’s so well-trod it feels discouragingly inescapable: that of the genius turned superhero.