One letter to the New York Times following barbie's split from long-time partner Ken complained that "the breakup... discourages -even insults-permanence and commitment"

《纽约时报》的一封读者来信对芭比娃娃与她的长期伙伴肯分手这样抱怨说:"(他们的)分手、令人沮丧--甚至是对持久婚姻和信守承诺的一种践踏。

Since corruption has deep roots in many countries, trying to eradicate the problem presents an impossible goal, which discourages action.

考虑到腐败已经深深地根植于很多国家,根除腐败是一项不可能的目标,反而会使行动受挫。

Inflation discourages saving.

通货膨胀妨碍储蓄。

Inflation discourages saving.

通货膨胀阻碍储蓄的积累。

It discourages me that every time I try to ride a bicycle I fall off.

我每次骑自行车都跌倒真让人沮丧。

||1:In these models, inequality was seen as a problem of pay differences, best addressed through taxes on labour incomes.||2:Taxes on capital were reckoned to have large costs.||3:Capital, or savings invested in new production, raises future growth and consumption.||4:If a tax on capital income discourages investment, that impact compounds indefinitely into the future.||5:As a result, zero tax on capital income should be preferred, even by individuals who don't earn any such income.||6:Economists became vocal in calling for reduced tax rates, and policymakers responded.||7:Top capital-income tax rates in America and Britain fell by more than half from the 1950s to the 1980s.||8:There is pressure to go further.

||1:在这些模型中，人们认为收入的不一致导致出现了不公正，而解决这个问题的最好方法就是向劳力收入征税。||2:资本税会产生巨额成本。||3:资本，或者投入新生产的储蓄能够在未来带来经济增长和消费。||4:若对资本收入征税会减少投资，其影响将有可能渗入到未来。||5:这么一来，人们更乐于选择对资本收入征收零税收，即使对于那些并没有资本收入的人来说也是如此。||6:经济学家强烈呼吁削减税率，并得到了政策制定者的回应。||7:在20世纪50年代到80年代间，英美两国的最高资本收入税率下降了超过一半。||8:若施加更多压力，还能降得更多。

More broadly, Africa's business climate discourages hiring.

更广泛地说，那就是非洲的市场不鼓励雇用员工。

They have also discovered that the shells of many organisms in the area are short of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate that gives them strength, but whose formation acid discourages .

他们也发现，这里许多生物的外壳缺少文石—一种让这些生物产生力量的碳酸钙形式—但是，它们体内的酸性形式阻碍了这种物质的合成。

Its leaves are full of a toxin called emodin that discourages browsers.

它的叶子充满了一种名为大黄素的毒素，使得食草动物望而却步。

They have also discovered that the shells of many organisms in the area are short of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate that gives them strength, but whose formation acid discourages .

霰石为碳酸钙的一种形式，它不仅为有机物外壳提供支撑，而且其形成过程能够降低酸性物质含量。

Two-year-olds have a gift for tackling the impossible with enthusiasm; repeated failure hardly discourages them at all.

2岁的孩子有这样一种天赋，总是充满热忱地去应对不可能之事，即使失败了也从不会退却。

It seems the problem of WEP is that while it discourages the casual listener, it rolls over for any serious attack.

WEP的问题似乎是当它阻止偶然的侦听者时，对于任何严重的攻击，它都败下阵来。

This overhead discourages test teams from maintaining proper documentation to ensure a repeatable and consistent test effort.

从维护适当的文档到确保可重复的且一致的测试工作，该开销阻碍了测试团队。

And Taiwan's tax system discourages individuals and companies from bringing offshore funds back home.

而台湾的税务制度令个人及企业不愿将海外资金带回岛内。

In Britain, alas, public policy actually discourages such activity.

而在英国呢，公共政策实际上却限制这种活动。

Italy's legal and regulatory environment discourages firms from taking a leap in size, according to recent research.

根据最近的研究，意大利社会的法律和监管环境，阻碍了企业在规模上的飞跃式发展。

The rigidity of the public sector does not merely reduce the quality of services. It also discourages innovation.

公共部门的顽固不化不仅仅降低了服务的质量，而且还抑制了创新。

Even if Friday's news discourages further speculation, a fundamental reorientation of economic policy is now urgently needed.

即便上周的进展化解了进一步投机的威胁，但现在亟需从根本上重新定向经济政策。

But my father discourages me from becoming a teacher , he says hedoes't want me to follow in his footsteps.

可是爸爸总是给我泼冷水，说不想让我步他的后尘。

Taxing the Duke of Westminster's overtime, on the other hand, discourages him from working, without raising revenue from anyone else.

另一方面，对威斯敏斯特公爵的加班收入征税会减弱他的工作热情，而不会增加从其他人身上获得的税收。

This discourages the sort of small-scale, independent projects often associated with green energy, says Mr Hugh of Asia Cleantech Gateway.

迈克•休表示，这种状况阻碍了通常与绿色能源相关的小型独立项目的发展。

Your list may be so long on your profile, that it discourages would-be suitors who'd rather find someone more easy-going.

你个人主页上的列出的条件可能很长，那会让很多本来可能发展的对象宁愿选一个随和一点的。

Young men are already more likely to break the law than most; having more free time, more motive and less to lose hardly discourages them.

年轻人比起大部分人本来就容易触犯法律；他们拥有更多自由的时间，更多的动机，也没更多可失去的东西，几乎没有什么可以阻止他们作案。

Within the euro area a debate is in progress over whether the single currency itself encourages or discourages reforms.

欧元区内部正在讨论单一货币本身是有利于改革，还是不利于改革。

Apple strongly discourages all that, claiming that the iPod, the iPod software and iTunes are three components of the same product.

苹果强烈地“不鼓励”以上这些，并声称iPod，iPod软件以及iTune是同一产品的三个部件。

Holding people accountable for flawed and faulty plans discourages people from taking the right actions when information becomes available.

使人们对这个有缺陷不完善的计划负责通常会使他们打消采取正确行为的念头，即使当他们得知信息是可利用的。

The Dead Sea is so named because its high salinity discourages the growth of fish, plants, and other wildlife.

死海其名来源于因其高矿化度鱼类、植物和其他野生动植物不能生存这一原因。

A regional "grand bargain" that discourages Iran and Syria from fanning flames in Iraq may remain a hope, albeit a distant one.

虽然有些遥远，但令伊朗和叙利亚不再对伊拉克问题煸风点火的地区性“大交易”（grandbargain）依然保有希望。

He was anxious to arrest the spread of means-tested top-up help for pensioners, which discourages private retirement saving.

他急于阻止针对养老金的经济状况调查援助计划的推广，这让私有退休收入大大受挫。

Elderly folks refer to him as "Dr. Don, " although he has no medical degree and discourages people from using this title.

他没有医学学位所以不愿意别人叫他“唐医生”，但当地的老人还是喜欢这样称呼他。