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单词 discouragement
释义
discouragement
noun
uk
/dɪˈskʌr.ɪdʒ.mənt/us
/dɪˈskɝː.ɪdʒ.mənt/

discouragementnoun(MAKING LESS CONFIDENT)

[CorU]
thestateof havinglostyourconfidenceorenthusiasmfor something:
泄气，垂头丧气，心灰意冷
afeelingof discouragement心灰意冷的感觉
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Discouraging and putting off
  • aversive
  • cold
  • daunt
  • daunting
  • deter
  • deterrence
  • discouraging
  • disempower
  • disempowering
  • dishearten
  • disheartening
  • emasculate
  • pour/throw cold water onsomethingidiom
  • put a spoke insomeone'swheelidiom
  • putsomethingoff
  • spoil
  • spoilsomeone'spartyidiom
  • spoke
  • throw
  • wind
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discouragementnoun(PREVENTING)

[U]
actionstopreventortrytopreventsomething fromhappeningor someone from doing something:
阻止…发生；劝阻…做某事
the discouragement of anydirectaction阻止任何直接行动
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Preventing and impeding
  • anti-jamming
  • avert
  • avoid
  • avoidable
  • bar
  • be a drag onsomeone/somethingidiom
  • bottleneck
  • derail
  • fireproof
  • hang
  • havesomeone/somethinghanging roundyourneckidiom
  • head off
  • hinder
  • hogtie
  • prevent
  • preventable
  • prevention
  • prevention is better than cureidiom
  • preventive
  • scuttle
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(Definition ofdiscouragementfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

discouragement| American Dictionary

discouragement
noun[U]
us
/dɪˈskər·ɪdʒ·mənt,-ˈskʌr-/
afeelingof being lessconfidentor lesshopeful:
He hadknowndiscouragement andfailure, but in the end heperseveredandwoundup with asuccessfulbusiness.
(Definition ofdiscouragementfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdiscouragement

discouragement
If one is discouraged by the first discouragements, one will never get anywhere.
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Will he now take immediate steps, in view of this wrong diagnosis and fiscal discouragements on overseas investments, to remove these fiscal discouragements?
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Our policy, therefore, rests upon the twin pillars of providing incentives and removing discouragements.
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Such discouragements were bad enough in my day in local government.
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We tax him higher than any of his overseas counterparts and, for good measure, promise him additional discouragements in the autumn.
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I believe that, by and large, our manufacturing costs are competitive in the export markets; but there are some impediments and discouragements.
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Our intention is that it should largely eliminate any discouragements to expansion by small and medium-sized companies.
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There should be many more discouragements to people getting married when they are pregnant.
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Fourthly, as a result of all those discouragements it is clear from the figures that the system is not working.
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Can we not agree between us to remove the discouragements to commercial success which politics seem constantly to impose?
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We must try to remove all these marginal discouragements.
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Together, despite difficulties, disappointments and downright discouragements—some unavoidable and some man-made—they have already achieved great, though unspectacular, things.
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Our discouragements as well as our successes ought to be recorded.
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They have met with difficulties and discouragements of various kinds.
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Under present discouragements it is utterly impossible for anybody ever again to accumulate money.
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