讓人打退堂鼓的動作和東西
同一張圖換個角度：不看被抽掉勁的那個人，改看是誰、是什麼把勁抽走的。抽的人成了「勸阻」，抽的東西成了「令人洩氣的事」。
noun · C1
The act of trying to make people less willing to do something, usually by making it look difficult, costly, or unwise rather than by forbidding it.
勸阻
核心畫面
You can picture discouragement as what is left when someone's courage has been taken out of them. The same word can point at the empty feeling inside the person, at the act of taking the courage out, or at the thing that did the taking — one picture, looked at from three places.
「discouragement」可以想成「一個人想做下去的那股勁被抽掉」之後的畫面。同一個字可以指抽掉以後心裡剩下的…更多收起
「discouragement」可以想成「一個人想做下去的那股勁被抽掉」之後的畫面。同一個字可以指抽掉以後心裡剩下的感覺，也可以指抽掉這個動作本身，還可以指動手抽掉的那樣東西。三個意思看起來差很多，其實站在同一張圖上；差別只在你看的是人、是動作，還是那個原因。From the word’s history
The word is discourage + -ment, and discourage still shows courage inside it with dis- in front. Read that way, the noun is 'the taking away of courage' — and English lets that name the feeling, the act, or the cause.
字是 discourage 加 -ment 來的，discourage 裡面還看得到 courage（勇氣），前面的 dis- 帶有「拿掉」的意思。這樣讀下來，這個名詞就是「勇氣被拿走」這件事；英文再讓它同時指那個感覺、那個動作，和那個原因。
Wiktionary, entry 'discouragement' etymology tree (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1269218344:7299), supplied in the evidence packet
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noun · B2
The feeling you have when your confidence, or your willingness to keep going, has drained away — usually after a long stretch in which your effort has not produced any result.
氣餒