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

• The response, she said, had been more than heartening.
  她表示，反响非常振奋人心。
• 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。
• 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。
• State tourism minister Kaukab Hamid described the ruling as "heartening".
  国家旅游部长考卡布·哈米德称这一决定是“令人振奋的”。
• 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。
• 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。
• China-EU trade and economic cooperation has yielded heartening fruits.
  中欧经济贸易合作取得了可喜的成果。
• 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。
• The Sierra Club called his comments heartening.
  塞拉俱乐部称其言论令人振奋。
• As the first major White House decision on trade, therefore, the levying of new tariffs on imports of Chinese tyres is not particularly heartening.
  因此，作为白宫在贸易方面做出的首项重大决定，对从中国进口的轮胎征收新关税之举，并不特别鼓舞人心。