Discourage一词的含义可总结为以下两种：

1、使泄气；使丧失信心

discouraging experience/response/result 令人泄气的经历╱回答╱结果

2、阻止；阻拦；打消……的念头

discourage corruption遏制腐败

discourage burglars防止夜盗闯入

discourage smoking among teenagers 劝阻青少年吸烟

参考双语例句：

It may be difficult to do at first. Don't let this discourage you. 

开始时做起来也许比较困难。不要让这个泄你的气。

The Committee further recommends that the State party resolutely counter the activities of extremist organizations including on the internet and adopt educational and awareness-raising measures to prevent and discourage the involvement of young sympathizers in extremist organizations and movements.

委员会进一步建议缔约国坚决打击极端主义组织的各种活动，包括其在因特网上的活动，并采取教育和提高认识的措施，防止和劝阻青年同情者参与极端主义者组织与运动。

Additional elements of a regional financial architecture include: (a) improving exchange rate coordination to facilitate trade and macroeconomic stability and discourage competitive devaluations; (b) achieving closer cooperation between central banks and financing institutions to facilitate region-wide information-sharing and capacity-building among the region’s least developed countries; (c) expanding public-private partnerships for investment in infrastructure by building capacities among policymakers, especially in the design of legal and regulatory regimes and in project development and management; and (d) active participation in global discussions on the reform of the international financial architecture to ensure that it supports the region’s developmental needs.

区域金融架构的其他部分包括：(a)增强汇率的协调，以促进贸易和宏观经济的稳定和制止竞争性贬值；(b)实现中央银行与金融机构的更紧密合作，以促进该区域最不发达国家的全区域信息共享和能力建设；(c)通过建立决策者的能力，特别是建立法律和监管制度设计及项目开发和管理的能力，扩大公营和私营部门在基础设施投资方面的伙伴关系；(d)积极参与关于国际金融架构改革的全球讨论，以确保它支持该区域的发展需要。