| 单词 | discourage |
| 释义 | discourage (once / 314 pages) v If your friend is thinking about quitting her job and moving to the Peruvian Andes to raise llamas, you might discourage her by pointing out that she’s allergic to llamas and also afraid of heights. When you discourage someone, you try to talk them out of doing something, by pointing out reasons why their planned action would be unwise. The verb discourage has roots in the French word descouragier, which comes from des-, meaning “away,” and corage, or “courage.” So when you discourage someone, you can think of it as taking his courage — or enthusiasm — away. WORD FAMILYdiscourage: discouraged, discouragement, discourages, discouraging+/discouraged: discouragedly, undiscouraged/discouragement: discouragements/discouraging: discouragingly USAGE EXAMPLESOften mere notification of a review by the panel discourages deals. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) And like all Apple employees, he was discouraged from talking about his job with co-workers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) His choice of the wildly unqualified Ben Carson to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is a discouraging early sign. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1v try to prevent; show opposition to We should discourage this practice among our youth Syn|Hyper deter disapprove, reject deem wrong or inappropriate 2v deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged Ant|Hypo encourage inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down lower someone's spirits; make downhearted dishearten, put offtake away the enthusiasm of intimidate, restrainto compel or deter by or as if by threats pour cold water on, throw cold water onbe discouraging or negative about dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare offcause to lose courage chilldepress or discourage 3v admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior Syn|Hyper admonish, monish, warn warn notify of danger, potential harm, or risk advise, counsel, rede give advice to |
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