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

• For anyone who knows Japan, who has seen its workers on the factory floor or its craftsmen at their meticulous business, these are heartening stories.
  日本的工人们已回到工厂上班，工匠们也重新开始了他们一丝不苟的工作。对任何了解日本的人而言，这一切都是令人振奋的事情。
• It was very heartening to hear that they liked our work.
  听说他们喜欢我们的工作这真是令人鼓舞。
• It is, moreover, clear that they are having a demoralizing effect on the whole enemy army and all Japan and a heartening effect on our whole army and people.
  至其给予整个敌军敌国以精神上的不利影响，给予整个我军和人民以精神上的良好影响，也是显而易见的。
• THE news from India 's2011 census is almost all heartening.
  印度2011年人口普查结果出炉，几乎各项指标都令人满意。
• 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。
• Orphanage staff had told the Stricklands that Bella was very strong-willed – perhaps heartening for an adoptive parent to hear, since strong will may be just what got her through that night in the alleyway, and the many illnesses of her infanthood.
  孤儿院员工告诉斯特里克兰夫妇，贝拉意志非常刚强，或许这在养父母听来会为之一振，因为也许她就是凭借刚强的意志才挺过了弄堂里的那一夜，以及她幼年时的许多疾病。
• The response, she said, had been more than heartening.
  她表示，反响非常振奋人心。
• For the infant nation, victory in the war and for the republican principle came as a heartening overture.
  对于刚刚出生的国家而言，战争与共和原则的胜利，是使人鼓舞的开端。
• 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。
• Heartening reports of victories are pouring in.
  可喜的胜利消息不断传来。