discouraging

🇬🇧/dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒɪŋ/ 🇺🇸/dɪsˈkɜːrɪdʒɪŋ/📚 15291 13托福
causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm; depressing. "a discouraging experience"

adjective [原级]使人沮丧的;令人气馁的

Experts have long recognized that this discouraging problem has multiple causes.
专家们早就认识到,这个令人沮丧的问题是由多种原因造成的。

verb [vt. 及物动词]沮丧(discourage 的 ing 形式);失去勇气

Her criticisms had the effect of discouraging him completely.
她的批评使他完全丧失了信心。

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