Exhortation
[egzɔː'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɛgzɔr'teʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action.
(noun.) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion.
編輯:朱利叶斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.
(n.) Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.
校對:莎娜
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Advice, counsel.[2]. Persuasive discourse.
手打:洛雷塔
例句/造句/用法:
- From every cage that harboured red men a thunderous shout went up in answer to his exhortation. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Just at the door he said to them a few brief but very earnest words of religious consolation and exhortation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They needed no exhortation. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And he would willingly have had that service of exhortation in prospect now. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There was little I could add to this general exhortation; for the plague, though in London, was not among us. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I had reckoned on leading her to higher things by means of a little earnest exhortation on the subject of her marriage. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Miss Bart accepted this exhortation in a spirit of the purest impartiality. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It seems, however, to have been rather a pious exhortation, than a law to which exact obedience was required from the faithful. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In fact, the exhortation seemed rather a superfluous one to a man with a great pair of iron fetters on his feet. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Various exhortations, or relations of experience, followed, and intermingled with the singing. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The mild exhortations of the old man, and the lively conversation of the loved Felix, were not for me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
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