discouraging

基本解釋

But instead of seeing the setback as something discouraging, just accept it as a part of the journey.
把挫折看做是你人生旅途的一部分，而不是把它眡作爲令人沮喪的東西。
Perhaps that seems a little discouraging. After all, if really smart people with all the right resources can fail, then what hope is there for the rest of us?
或許這看起來讓人沮喪，畢竟，如果很聰明的一群人又有所有想要的資源最後做的東西卻失敗了，那我們其餘的人還有什麼希望？
When the trend turns up, it will be weak, with continued high unemployment discouraging consumers from spending and businesses balking at major purchases until they ve cleared their books of debt.
這種趨勢一開始會很微弱，隨著失業(yè)率的增高，會使消費者對開支和商業(yè)上的大宗購買感到沮喪。直到他們清理了自己的債務冊。

from the nation's beleaguered banking sector that outshone another dose of discouraging numbers on employment,business inventories, and other economic indicators.
Twenty-eight percent-- only 28% are eating the recommended amount of vegetables, so this is a pretty discouraging number.
8%,衹有28%的人蔬菜攝入達標,這些數(shù)字可真叫人泄氣
耶魯公開課 - 關(guān)於食物的心理學、生物學和政治學課程節(jié)選
We'll about what individuals can do, what a country can do, what the world can do to help change what are really pretty discouraging numbers.
我們會談到個人能做些什麼,國家能做些什麼,世界又能做些什麼,去幫助改變這些,令人泄氣的數(shù)據(jù)
耶魯公開課 - 關(guān)於食物的心理學、生物學和政治學課程節(jié)選

Far from discouraging work, the right kind of welfare can do just the opposite.
FORBES: Jobs, Welfare, and the Human Economy

If someone or something discourages you, they cause you to lose your enthusiasm about your actions.
discouraged
To discourage an action or to discourage someone from doing it means to make them not want to do it.