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TOEFL BNC: 5260 COCA: 4211

discourage

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
discourage /dɪˈskɚrəʤ/ verb
discourages; discouraged; discouraging
discourage
/dɪˈskɚrəʤ/
verb
discourages; discouraged; discouraging
Learner's definition of DISCOURAGE
[+ object]
: to make (someone) less determined, hopeful, or confident使灰心;使失去信心;使泄气
often used (be/get) discouraged常用作(be/get) discouraged
: to make (something) less likely to happen阻碍;阻拦
: to try to make people not want to do (something)使打消念头;制止
◊ To discourage (someone) from doing (something) is to tell or advise someone not to do something.劝阻;阻拦
opposite encourage

— discouraged

adjective [more discouraged; most discouraged]
TOEFL BNC: 5260 COCA: 4211

discourage

verb

dis·​cour·​age di-ˈskər-ij How to pronounce discourage (audio)
-ˈskə-rij
discouraged; discouraging

transitive verb

1
: to deprive of courage or confidence : dishearten
was discouraged by repeated failure
2
a
: to hinder by disfavoring
trying to discourage absenteeism
b
: to dissuade or attempt to dissuade from doing something
tried to discourage her from going
discourageable adjective
discourager noun
discouragingly adverb

Example Sentences

Word History

TOEFL BNC: 5260 COCA: 4211
discourage

verb

ADVERB | VERB + DISCOURAGE | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADVERBactively, positively, strongly積極/堅決/強烈勸阻Smoking is actively discouraged in the university.該大學積極倡導不吸煙。effectively有效抑制Our system effectively discourages investment.我們的體系可以有效地抑制投資。VERB + DISCOURAGEtry to試圖勸阻PREPOSITIONfrom勸阻⋯做⋯We tried to discourage him from resigning.我們試圖勸他不要辭職。PHRASES(not) easily discouraged(不)容易泄氣Children are easily discouraged from reading.小孩子閱讀很容易氣餒。I'm not easily discouraged.我不會輕易泄氣的。

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