discouraging

基本解释

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，而不是把它视作为令人沮丧的东西。
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?
或许这看起来让人沮丧，毕竟，如果很聪明的一群人又有所有想要的资源最后做的东西却失败了，那我们其余的人还有什么希望？
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.
这种趋势一开始会很微弱，随着失业率的增高，会使消费者对开支和商业上的大宗购买感到沮丧。直到他们清理了自己的债务册。

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%,只有28%的人蔬菜摄入达标,这些数字可真叫人泄气
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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.
我们会谈到个人能做些什么,国家能做些什么,世界又能做些什么,去帮助改变这些,令人泄气的数据
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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.