**discourage vs. disheartening 用法辨析**
1. **词性差异**
- **discourage** 是**及物动词**,表示"使某人丧失勇气/信心"或"劝阻某种行为"。
*例句:*
The coach discouraged him from quitting the team.
(教练劝阻他退出球队。)
- 接宾语时强调**主动施加影响**(劝阻或打击)。
- **disheartening** 是**形容词**,描述"令人沮丧的"状态,侧重**客观结果**。
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To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; - the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; - the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.