Encouraging
[eŋ'kʌrɪdʒɪŋ] or [ɪn'kɝɪdʒɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) giving courage or confidence or hope; 'encouraging advances in medical research' .
(adj.) furnishing support and encouragement; 'the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher' .
胡安娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encourage
(a.) Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.
編輯:纳内特
例句/造句/用法:
- It is encouraging people to marry if you make so much of them. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- As regards its quantity and quality, the accounts are most encouraging. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Our out-of-door life easily threw one in my way, and I delicately said that there was a responsibility in encouraging Richard. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Miss Price, will not you join me in encouraging your cousin? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The nondescript replied in encouraging terms, and brought him to a coffee-shop in the street within a stone's throw. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was clear what the end would be, since Mary openly placed Farebrother above everybody, and these women were all evidently encouraging the affair. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was impossible to make the confession more dispassionately, or in a tone less encouraging to the vanity of the person addressed. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- He was of opinion, in fact, that southern people needed encouraging. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I returned an encouraging response. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmative! 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Other prominent Frenchmen made encouraging experiments on small steamboats--followed in 1784-86 by James Rumsey and John Fitch in America in the same line. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I think your manners to him encouraging. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- After all, I was only encouraging the most absurd vanity, contrary to common sense. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The spinster caused Briggs to write back to the Colonel a gracious and complimentary letter, encouraging him to continue his correspondence. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And this is old Fitzurse's boasted policy, encouraging these malapert knaves to rebel against us! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- There is always plenty, Herbert, said I, to say something encouraging. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I am very ill, Harriette, said the dear sufferer, with encouraging firmness, holding out her hand to me; but don't frighten yourself. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Clara, visited by an human pang, pale and trembling, crept near him--he looked on her with an encouraging smile--Do you fear, sweet girl? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Calhoun, from whom he received very encouraging letters. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Not that I imagine he can think I have been encouraging him hitherto. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Those days were heroic ones, for he then battled against mighty odds, and the prospects were dim and not very encouraging. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He could not believe her to be encouraging him. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It was encouraging a nasty class of intellectuals to interfere in the affairs of sound business men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- If you could kindly mention now, for instance, what nine times ninepence are, or how many shillings in twenty guineas, it would be so encouraging. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- He was a skilful master, and successful in his profession, employing the mildest and most encouraging methods. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- After I had pondered a little over this encouraging sentiment, I asked Mr. Jaggers if I could send for a coach? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It is chiefly by encouraging the manufactures of Europe, that the colony trade indirectly encourages its agriculture. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
編輯:纳内特