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 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。
• I think it is heartening to see what is happening in the US.
  我认为，美国正在发生的变化对我们是一种鼓舞。
• Indeed, despite their errors, this attitude bodes well for the future, and is a heartening sign of a focus on human prosperity.
  他们的确有谬误，但他们的态度预示着一个更好的未来，他们对人类繁荣前景的关心也是一个鼓舞人心的标志。
• 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。
• 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。
• While it is heartening to be able to alleviate interpersonal troubles by talking it out, sometimes listening alone does the trick.
  倾诉能缓解人际关系的烦恼，这听起来令人振奋，但有时候仅仅倾听就能获得成功。
• The sun lost its heartening power and the sky became grey and somber.
  太阳失去了它鼓舞人心的力量，天空变成铅灰色，阴沉沉的。
• 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。
• At a news briefing, State Department Deputy Spokesman Gordon Duguid said it is heartening that Burn's remarks in Moscow were seemingly well-received.
  美国国务院副发言人戈登.杜吉德在新闻发布会上说，伯恩斯在莫斯科的这番话似乎受到欢迎，令人鼓舞。
• That was before the Arab spring& which, heartening as it was to believers in freedom, prompted many Asian regimes, from Iran to Uzbekistan to China, to intensify repression and curb the media.
  此后的阿拉伯之春发起的一系列行动在自由派看来多少鼓舞人心，带动了许多亚洲国家，如伊朗，乌兹别克斯坦，乃至中国等国家的自由行动，但紧随其后的是更加严格的政治压抑和媒体控制。