| 单词 | encourage |
| 释义 | en·cour·age 1. < an example that encouraged struggling peoples to fight for liberty > 2. < the conversation was … skillfully encouraged by host and hostess — Lucien Price > 3. < government grants designed to encourage conservation > 4. < sharp competition among newsmen … tends to encourage sensationalism — F.L.Mott > Synonyms: < so much is she overshadowed by her husband, who, indeed, did little himself to encourage her personality beyond the home — H.S.Canby > < the treatment should begin by encouraging him to utter freely even his most shocking thoughts — Bertrand Russell > inspirit, a rather literary word, indicates imparting of a spirit, especially one of courageous or optimistic resolution < the marches [of Sousa] were most inspiriting … and so patriotic — Osbert Sitwell > < an astonishing and inspiriting record of what human ingenuity can accomplish — Basil Davenport > cheer indicates lifting up in spirit, either from a degree of sadness or discouragement or to a degree of courage, optimism, and hope needed to continue or persevere < doctored the sick, cheered the downhearted … and by sheer force of character made himself their indispensable leader — G.H.Genzmer > hearten suggests imparting new or renewed courage, ardor, energy, and optimism < gifts … which both strengthen our resources and hearten our endeavors — J.B.Conant > < heartened by the arrival of three great soldiers — Kenneth Roberts > embolden is likely to suggest overcoming timidity, reticence, or reservation and imparting sufficient boldness for whatever is under consideration < on seeing a carriage drive up to the Abbey, she was emboldened to descend and meet him under the protection of visitors — Jane Austen > < the government, emboldened by this first victory, now aimed a blow at an enemy of a very different class — T.B.Macaulay > nerve and steel are likely to indicate an imparting or collecting of qualities of moral strength, resolution, and courage for some special occasion, accomplishment, task, or duty; they may differ in that steel may be stronger in indicating an inflexible resolution or utter insensibility to what would enervate or mollify < this commercial opportunity nerved the Ottawas to an unaccustomed doing — Bernard De Voto > < nerving myself with the thought that if I got crushed by the fall I should probably escape a lingering and far more painful death, I dropped into the cloud of foliage — W.H.Hudson †1922 > < the aspirant must school and steel himself to sniffs and sneers — H.L.Mencken > < it taught them to steel their wills, to discipline their habits, to work intensively — A.R.Williams > Synonym: see in addition favor. |
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