0 the state of having lost your confidence or enthusiasm for something:
a feeling of discouragement
1 actions to prevent or try to prevent something from happening or someone from doing something:
2 a feeling of being less confident or less hopeful:
He had known discouragement and failure, but in the end he persevered and wound up with a successful business.
If one is discouraged by the first discouragements, one will never get anywhere.
Will he now take immediate steps, in view of this wrong diagnosis and fiscal discouragements on overseas investments, to remove these fiscal discouragements?
Our policy, therefore, rests upon the twin pillars of providing incentives and removing discouragements.
Such discouragements were bad enough in my day in local government.
We tax him higher than any of his overseas counterparts and, for good measure, promise him additional discouragements in the autumn.
I believe that, by and large, our manufacturing costs are competitive in the export markets; but there are some impediments and discouragements.
Our intention is that it should largely eliminate any discouragements to expansion by small and medium-sized companies.
There should be many more discouragements to people getting married when they are pregnant.
中文繁体
心灰意冷的, 洩氣,垂頭喪氣,心灰意冷, 阻止…
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心灰意冷的, 泄气,垂头丧气,心灰意冷, 阻止…
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desánimo, desaliento, disuasión…
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desânimo, desencorajamento, desincentivo…
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découragement [masculine], désapprobation [feminine], découragement…
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ztráta odvahy, odrazování…
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modvirken, modarbejdelse…
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penghalang…
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