【encourage音标】 英[ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒ] 美[ɪnˈkɜ:rɪdʒ]
【单词释义】 encourage是什么意思：
vt.鼓励，鼓舞；支持；促进；鼓动
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] encourages
[单词现在分词] encouraging
[单词过去式] encouraged
[单词过去分词] encouraged
【encourage形近词/近似词】
courage n.[U]勇气；胆量
entourage n. 随行人员，随从
discourage vt.劝阻；阻拦；使泄气
【单词例句】
◇ He always wished all the best to his disabled fellows and encouraged them, "Never mind! All you have is adequate to get your achievement."
他一直都把所有最好祝愿给予他残疾的同伴，并鼓励他们：“没关系，你拥有的一切一定足够你取得自己的成就！”
---- Defeat Disability
◇ An initial survey of 2,000 UK employees revealed that half regularly listen to music on the job. Some of those employees' bosses reportedly encourage the practice, but others are strictly against it, believing it hurts work performance.
一项对2000名英国员工的初步调查显示，半数员工经常在工作时听音乐。据报道，一些老板鼓励这种做法，但其他老板则对此严格反对，认为这会损害工作表现。
---- Listening to classical music at work boosts productivity
◇ The forum said the only way to avoid a disaster is to massively improve the economics and uptake of recycling. That means giving people incentives to collect plastic garbage and recycle, use reusable packaging, and encourage countries to drastically improve their waste collection infrastructure, to avoid plastic garbage leaking into the nature.
该论坛发表声明说，避免这一灾难的唯一途径就是大力改善经济结构，提高循环使用率。这意味着激励人们去回收并循环使用塑料垃圾，使用可重复使用的包装袋，鼓励各国大力改善废物回收设施，以防止塑料垃圾排放到自然环境中。
---- More plastic than fish in oceans by 2050
◇ By not demonizing the straw as an object, he thinks activists can hope to achieve better goals. "I am not out to ban straws. I think it's much more effective to encourage people to make the choice not to use them. Voluntary participation encourages people to spread the word. Forcing people to do things is not always the most effective way to make a change."
他认为，如果不将吸管这个物品妖魔化，反吸管活动有望达到更高的目标。“我不赞成禁止吸管。我认为鼓励人们选择不用吸管会有效得多。自愿的参与会鼓励人们传播信息。强迫人们去做事不一定是达成改变最有效的方式。”
---- Is time up for this plastic relic
◇ Doctors say a sneeze, or sternutation, is intended to release foreign, and potentially damaging, particles, irritants or germs. Stopping it not only risks rupturing the throat, but could encourage the build of bacteria or trigger an asthma attack.
医生说，打喷嚏的目的是释放外来的具有潜在危害性的颗粒物、刺激物或细菌。止住喷嚏不但有撕裂喉咙的风险，还可能助长细菌滋生或引发哮喘。