It was why he continued to discourage hope that the town could get back to normal.

这就是他一直不相信南相马市能恢复原样的原因。

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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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Short of confiscating her birthday money, is there any way we can hope to discourage this?

除了没收她的生日礼金，还有什么方法能阻止她这么做吗？

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Teachers and other adults hope those comments will discourage others from leaving vicious and negative remarks.

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It was why he continued to discourage hope that the town could get back to normal.

ECONOMIST: A spreading cloud of economic and human costs

The researchers hope the findings will help discourage the practice of shark-finning, in which the fins of as many as 70 million sharks a year are sliced off and the sharks are dumped back into the ocean to die.

MSN: No (shark fin) soup for you! It may be harmful