discouraging
adj. 使人氣餒/沮喪的
If someone or something discourages you, they cause you to lose your enthusiasm about your actions.
It may be difficult to do at first. Don't let this discourage you.
萬事開頭難,別因此而灰心。
To discourage an action or to discourage someone from doing it means to make them not want to do it.
...typhoons that discouraged shopping and leisure activities.
使購物和休閒活動化為泡影的颱風
...a campaign to discourage children from smoking.
勸阻兒童遠離香菸的運動
1. depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action;
2. expressing disapproval
Additionally, other Iraqi aircraft flew above a religious pilgrimage, discouraging terrorist groups from attacking them.
另外, 其他伊拉克航空器在宗教朝聖, 從攻擊他們的令人喪氣的恐怖分子之上飛行.
In Spain and Italy privileged workers are protected discouraging new permanent jobs.
在西班牙和義大利,優待的工人受到保護,導致新固定工作的減少.
It's discouraging that so many students have failed.
那麼多學生考不及格,真令人洩氣.
Why not create additional demand at home by discouraging Americans from buying foreign products?
何不抑制美國人購買外國產品的需求,從而創造額外的國內需求 呢 ?
Let the government take steps by encouraging virtues, not discouraging vices.
讓政府鼓勵優良品德, 而不是勸阻不良行為.