to prevent someone from doing something or to make someone less enthusiastic about doing something by making it difficult for that person to do it or by threatening bad results if they do it阻挠,阻止;威慑;使不敢
These measures are designed to deter an enemy attack.这些措施旨在阻止敌人的进攻。
High prices are deterring many young people from buying houses.高昂的价格让很多年轻人对于买房望而却步。
ADVERB | VERB + DETER | PREPOSITIONADVERB➤hardly不大能威懾住◇Her words of warning would hardly deter him.她的警告很難嚇住他。➤effectively有效地威懾住◇Will this harsher punishment effectively deter criminals?這種更嚴厲的懲罰能有效威懾罪犯嗎 ?➤easily輕易嚇住VERB + DETER➤be likely to, be unlikely to很可能/不太可能嚇住▸➤be enough to, be sufficient to足以威懾▸➤attempt to試圖威懾▸➤be designed to旨在威懾▸➤do little to, do nothing to對⋯幾乎沒有威懾作用;對⋯沒有威懾作用◇The present system does little to deter corporate crime.目前的體制對於法人犯罪沒有什麼威懾作用。PREPOSITION➤from有礙於⋯◇These new rules are likely to deter people from coming forward for help.新規則很可能阻礙人們尋求幫助。