At one doorway an office clerk physically blocked the entrance, apparently to discourage our entry.

在门道边，一位办事员用身体挡住门，显然是不想让我们进去。

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On the criminal justice side, we hope to make punishment tough enough to discourage crime but not so tough as to clog our prisons with relatively minor offenders.

在刑事司法方面，我们希望使惩罚严厉到足以阻止犯罪，但不要严厉到让罪行相对较轻的罪犯都挤满我们的监狱。

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In our lives, there will be times when people try to discourage us.

在我们的生活中，有时人们试图让我们灰心。

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But then our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or a new industry here in the United States.

WHITEHOUSE: Building a 21st Century Immigration System

And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or power a new industry right here in the United States.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

America needs a "time-out" from the regulations that discourage job creation and hurt our economy.

WSJ: Susan Collins: The Economy Needs a Regulation Time-Out