2019-08-18 dissuade

英英释义：to persuade someone not to do something 

dissuade somebody from something/doing something，比用它的反义词 persuade 加否定更加简洁，也可以体现表达的多样性。

常见的同义词还有 discourage 和 talk somebody out of something/doing something。

sentence

1. Many friends tried to persuade him not to smoke, but failed.     

2. Many friends tried to talk him out of smoking, but failed. 

3. Many friends unsuccessfully tried to dissuade him from smoking. 

4. She was dissuaded from committing suicide.

5. Mike Pompeo, America’s secretary of state, later insisted that Mr Maduro had been worried enough to have a plane waiting to spirit him to Havana but was dissuaded by his Russian allies.

6. As Muhammad Afzal, the central mosque’s chairman, is keen to recall, his establishment has led efforts to dissuade people from joining the war in Syria.    

7. The Chamber of Commerce, which has had the ear of every president, has successfully championed massive corporate-tax cuts but failed to dissuade the president from imposing tariffs and curbing immigration. 

practice

很多家长会劝说孩子不要通宵熬夜。 

Many parents would dissuade their children from staying up all night.

参考翻译：Many parents dissuade their children from staying up all night.