encourage
英 [ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒ] 美 [ɪnˈkɜrɪdʒ]

vt.

鼓励，鼓舞；支持；促进；鼓动

变形

过去式：encouraged过去分词：encouraged现在分词：encouraging第三人称单数：encourages

双语释义

v.(动词)

1. vt. 鼓励,激励,怂恿 make sb feel brave enough or confident enough to do sth; promote
2. vt. 促进,助长,激发 give active approval to; support; foster

英英释义

encourage[ in'kʌridʒ ]

• v.
  • contribute to the progress or growth of

    同义词：promoteadvanceboostfurther

  • inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to
  • spur on

    "His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife"

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)～+名词

• encourage clear thinking有利于思维清楚
• encourage farming促进农业的发展
• encourage one's laziness助长某人的惰性
• encourage one's pity激发起某人的怜悯
• encourage the practice of making investigations and studies大兴调查研究之风
• encourage the students鼓励学生
• encourage the troops给士兵们鼓劲

～+副词

• encourage adroitly机敏地鼓励
• encourage dubiously不可靠地援助
• encourage effectively有效地鼓励
• encourage energetically积极鼓励
• encourage essentially基本地支持
• encourage financially资金上支持
• encourage generously慷慨地鼓励
• encourage gladly欣然赞助
• encourage greatly极大地鼓舞
• encourage loyally忠诚地鼓励
• encourage materially物质鼓励
• encourage merely纯粹地鼓舞
• encourage mutually相互鼓励
• encourage necessarily必要地鼓励
• encourage openly公开地援助
• encourage practically实在地鼓励
• encourage reluctantly勉强地鼓励
• encourage rightly正确地鼓舞
• encourage secretly秘密地支持
• encourage skillfully灵活地鼓励
• encourage smoothly圆滑地鼓励
• encourage specifically特殊地鼓励
• encourage spiritually精神鼓励
• encourage substantially基本地援助
• encourage treacherously不可靠地援助
• encourage vigorously强有力地鼓励
• encourage warmly热情地鼓励

～+介词

• encourage at one's success为自己的成功而鼓舞
• encourage by为…所鼓舞
• encourage sb in在(某方面)鼓励某人
• encourage with用…方式鼓励某人

词组短语

encourage investment鼓励投资

同近义词辨析

motivate, encourage, excite, stimulate, inspire

这组词都有“鼓励、刺激”的意思，其区别是：

motivatev.激发，促动，强调激起动机去做某事。

A desire to go to medical school motivates her to study hard everyday.她希望上医学院，这成了她每天努力学习的动力。

encouragev.鼓励，促进，含有"使增强勇气或给予希望"的意味。

He encouraged his son to go to good college.他鼓励他的儿子上名牌大学。

excitev.指使人感到激动、兴奋；煽动，鼓动。

The band played louder and excited the audience.乐队演奏得更响亮了，使观众兴奋起来。

stimulatev.刺激，激发，促进，强调刺激反应的结果。

Cold air stimulates me.冷空气刺激我振作起来

inspirev.鼓舞，激发，影响，常常带有"启迪，启发"的意思。

My mother inspires us with stories of her difficult childhood.我的妈妈给我们讲童年时的艰苦生活以激励我们。

encourage, excite, stimulate, inspire

这组词都有“鼓励，激励”的意思，其区别是：

encourage指提高某人情绪，增强战胜困难，实现目标的信心和勇气。

excite主要指某人的言行或其它外界因素使他人变得兴奋或感情冲动，多用被动态。

stimulate尤指人或物因外界因素而受到刺激，使人振作起来或增强做某事的信心和勇气。

inspire通常指鼓起勇气，充满信心和希望。

双语例句

用作及物动词(vt.)

1. Her success encouraged me to try the same thing.
   她的成功鼓励我尝试做同样的事。
2. Her parents encouraged her in her studies.
   她的父母鼓励她好好学习。
3. He aims to encourage mutual understanding.
   他的目的在于增进相互了解。
4. Broadband support flat salary structure, to encourage their staff to study hard.
   宽带薪酬支持扁平型结构，鼓励员工努力学习。
5. In some places, the local government underlets land to encourage private education.
   在有些地方，政府廉价出租土地支持民办教育。

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