depress/discourage/dishearten.导航词义：使沮丧

1. depress:v. 使沮丧，使抑郁.指使人心情不好、不高兴。

Losing his job really depressed him.

丢了工作让他很沮丧。

That book depressed him.

那本书让他看得心情郁闷。

2. discourage:v. 使泄气，使灰心.指使人失去信心或泄气，常可与 demoralize 换用。

Don't let one failure discourage/demoralize you! You can do it!

别失败一次就灰心！你能行的！

She is easily discouraged/demoralized by obstacles.

她一遇到阻碍就泄气。

3. dishearten:v. 使沮丧，使灰心.较正式用词，指使人失去希望和信心。

Don't let the defeat dishearten you! Remember that Rome was not built in a day.

不要因为失败而灰心！要知道成功不是一蹴而就的。

全部

1·His parents tried to discourage him from being an actor.

他的父母试图阻止他去当演员。《牛津词典》

2·The Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money.

瑞士人想要阻止外资流入。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.

他对黄热病疫情对城市化进程的阻碍为一种巧合做出了解释。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·This greatly surprised him, but did not discourage him.

这使他大为吃惊，但并没有使他气馁。

5·A bad teacher-students relationship can discourage students from learning.

不良的师生关系会阻碍学生学习。

6·Make your own car a less inviting target, to discourage thieves from trying.

让你自己的车成为一个不那么诱人的目标，以阻止小偷尝试去偷。

7·Meanwhile, things that may discourage spending include bad tables and crowding.

与此同时，可能阻碍消费的因素包括“糟糕”的餐桌和拥挤的人流。

8·Societies that cannot replace their populations discourage investment and innovation.

无法更新迭代其人口的社会阻碍了投资和创新。

9·The purpose of the Act is to discourage the mainland American colonies from importing molasses.

该法案的目的是阻止美国大陆殖民地进口糖蜜。

10·The person finds himself in charge of a revolution he did nothing to discourage but did not create.

这个人发现自己在指挥着一个不是他发起，也无法阻止的革命。

阻止

1·His parents tried to discourage him from being an actor.

他的父母试图阻止他去当演员。《牛津词典》

2·The Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money.

瑞士人想要阻止外资流入。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Make your own car a less inviting target, to discourage thieves from trying.

让你自己的车成为一个不那么诱人的目标，以阻止小偷尝试去偷。

4·On the criminal justice side, we hope to make punishment tough enough to discourage crime but not so tough as to clog our prisons with relatively minor offenders.

在刑事司法方面，我们希望使惩罚严厉到足以阻止犯罪，但不要严厉到让罪行相对较轻的罪犯都挤满我们的监狱。

5·These should discourage retailers from wasteful practices that lead to the rejection of food on the basis of cosmetic characteristics, and losses in the home due to excessive purchasing by consumers.

这些措施应该阻止零售商的浪费行为，因为这些做法会导致基于化妆品特性的食品被拒绝，以及消费者过度购买造成的家庭损失。

劝阻

1·Agile principles advice not to work out detailed plans at a task level upfront - but it does not discourage planning in any way.

敏捷原则只建议不要预先做细分到任务层面的计划——但它并不是劝阻任何层面的计划。

2·When I discourage him, he always says with a smile, The world needs warm hearts.

每当我劝阻他时，爸爸总是笑着说：“世界需要热心肠嘛！”

3·But doctors are reluctant to say anything that might discourage breast-feeding.

但是医生不愿说任何可能劝阻母乳喂养的话。

4·When the tourism industry asked for help, Cowperthwaite responded by taxing hotels to recover costs-and to discourage other petitioners.

当旅游业发出求助时，郭伯伟以向酒店征税作为回应，目的在于弥补成本——以及劝阻其他请愿者。

5·But a lot of the time, well-meaning people will discourage friends from trying something that's difficult but achievable.

但是很多时候，善意的人们会劝阻朋友尝试一些困难但能实现的事情。

不鼓励

1·Even in America, where complicated federal rules discourage either selling or buying airports, a scheme to privatise Chicago Midway and four other airports is picking up speed again.

即便是在美国，复杂的联邦制度一向不鼓励买卖机场，将芝加哥中途机场和其余四个机场私有化的计划也加快了进程。

2·Some development methods may discourage refactoring or changes in a process because those activities do not directly contribute to generating customer code.

许多开发方法可能不鼓励在过程中进行重构或变更，因为这些行为不直接用于产生客户代码。

3·Although some doctors may discourage patients from doing their own research, many say they want to be included in the process.

尽管一些医生可能不鼓励病人自行研究，但也有许多病人声称不愿置身度外。

4·Because SIGBUS signals that something has gone seriously wrong with the process, I would discourage using this as a solution.

由于收到SIGBUS信号意味着进程发生了严重错误，我不鼓励采取这种解决方式。

5·While I discourage copying, this does not mean we cannot be inspired by individual design elements that we find.

我不鼓励抄袭，但我们可以被他人的设计元素所启发。