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单词 discouragement
释义
discouragementdis‧cour‧age‧ment /dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒmənt $ -ˈkɜːr-/ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Despite early discouragements, she eventually became a successful songwriter.
  • Our reaction to the court's decision is one of discouragement and disappointment.
  • the country's discouragement of religion
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • It is as if the entire party structure and philosophy had been geared towards the exclusion of participation and the discouragement of debate.
  • Its cadres were decimated, whether through discouragement, capitulation, imprisonment, or outright murder.
  • New ideas are often eroded by subtle discouragement rather than by explicit vetoes.
  • Sandys was able to keep up emigration, but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000.
  • Sometimes a sympathetic friend can be a constant source of discouragement, all unknowingly.
  • Surely, the sanguine tone seemed out of place; maybe it was meant to mask deep discouragement.
  • These things are not written under any feeling of discouragement, much less to discourage others.
  • They are a kind of a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
Word family
WORD FAMILYadjectiveencourageddiscouragedencouragingdiscouragingnounencouragementdiscouragementverbencouragediscourageadverbencouraginglydiscouragingly
1[uncountable] when you no longer feel confident or willing to do something:  In research, times of discouragement alternate with times of great achievement.2[uncountable] when you try to persuade someone not to do something, especially by making it seem difficult or bad:  the discouragement of smoking3[countable] something that discourages you
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