heartening

英 [ˈhɑːtnɪŋ]

美 [ˈhɑːrtnɪŋ]

v.  激励; 鼓励
hearten的现在分词

BNC.18746 / COCA.20220

柯林斯词典

• VERB 鼓舞;使振奋
  If someoneis heartened bysomething, it encourages them and makes them cheerful.
  1. He will have been heartened by the telephone opinion poll published yesterday...
     他会为昨天公布的电话民意调查结果感到鼓舞。
  2. The news heartened everybody.
     该消息让每个人都感到振奋。

英英释义

adj

• cheerfully encouraging
  Synonym:inspiriting

双语例句

• Then, even though you were to lose all you have overnight, you would be sure of heartening support from bona friends.
  就算在一夜之间变得一无所有，你也会有真诚的朋友在旁扶持。
• There are already heartening signs of a great regeneration in states like Texas and North Dakota.
  在得克萨斯州和北达科他州等地，已经出现了政府机构显著革新的喜人迹象。
• But what makes The Zero Marginal Cost Society worth reading is its audacity, its willingness to weave a vast string of developments into a heartening narrative of what our economic future may hold for the generations to come.
  但《零边际成本社会》想法大胆，而且乐于把各种各样的科技进步组织成一种令人振奋的声音来描述未来几代人的经济前景，这一点成就了它的可读性。
• It's heartening to see how fluidly Groovy closures and the curry method can be applied to numerous programming scenarios, and to both functional and object-oriented patterns.
  看到Groovy闭包和curry方法能够如此流畅地应用于众多编程场景、函数模式和面向对象模式，真是激动人心。
• It was not a heartening spectacle.
  这是一片叫人看了发愁的景象。
• Mr Li did cite what he said were heartening figures the relatively slow rates of investment on the coast, compared with the larger amounts spent inland, in the poorer provinces China is trying to develop.
  李晓超援引了他称为令人宽慰的数字即沿海地区的投资增长相对放缓，而相比之下，中国着力发展的较贫困内陆省份的投资规模有所增加。
• The Sierra Club called his comments heartening.
  塞拉俱乐部称其言论令人振奋。
• More and more, banks are losing talent to Teach for America, a fact that may turn out to be one of the most heartening consequences of the financial crisis.
  在美国，越来越多的人才离开银行业投身教育，这可能是经济危机带来的最令人欣慰的影响之一。
• Wherever his eyes looked, he saw broad and heartening things.
  举目所见，一切都是那样地广阔，那样地振奋人心。
• But as for the squads of trade lawyers on WTO manoeuvres, a heartening amount of the litigation has actually been aimed at preventing arbitrary trade restrictions in the future.
  但对于那些常打wto贸易官司的律师而言，令人鼓舞的是，很多诉讼实际上旨在阻止未来再出现随意实施贸易限制的做法。