discouraging是什么意思？

discouraging

英[dɪs'kʌrɪdʒɪŋ] 美[dɪsˈkəɪdʒɪŋ]

• adj. 令人沮丧的，使人泄气的，阻止的；
• v. 使气馁( discourage的现在分词 )，使沮丧，阻碍，劝阻；

副词：discouragingly;

动词：discourage;

形容词：discouraged;

例句

• It’s discouraging that so many students have failed. 那么多学生考不及格,真令人泄气。
• discouraging advice 使人沮丧的意见
• It's discouraging that so many students have failed. 那么多学生考不及格,真令人泄气.
• It's very discouraging to be sneered at all the time. 成天受嘲讽是很令人泄气的.
• Today's report is rather more discouraging for the economy. 今天的报道让人对经济更加丧失了信心。
• Discouraging words for those who believe that a college's job is to educate, not coddle. 对于那些认为学校的职责是教育而非溺爱的人而言,这样的话实在让人气馁.

反义词

• adj.
  discouraging的反义词之：使人沮丧的;不起劲的
  encouraging,

英语四级真题

And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  使泄气;使灰心
  If someone or something discourages you, they cause you to lose your enthusiasm about your actions.
  例句
  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
  To discourage an action or to discourage someone from doing it means to make them not want to do it.
  例句
  ...typhoons that discouraged shopping and leisure activities. 使购物和休闲活动化为泡影的台风 ...a campaign to discourage children from smoking. 劝阻儿童远离香烟的运动

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  令人沮丧的,使人泄气的
  discouraging advice 使人沮丧的意见 It’s discouraging that so many students have failed. 那么多学生考不及格,真令人泄气。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action;
  "where never is heard a discouraging word"
  2. expressing disapproval