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词汇 exhort
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Definition of exhort in English:

exhort

verb ɪɡˈzɔːtɛɡˈzɔːtɪɡˈzɔrt
  • with object and infinitive Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

    敦促;激励;勉励;规劝

    I exhorted her to be a good child
    with direct speech ‘Come on, you guys,’ exhorted Linda

    “快点,小伙子们”,琳达催促道。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She exhorts parents to teach their young that there is beauty and strength in diversity.
    • She exhorts her audience to put up banners and posters on the highways and byways.
    • He exhorts me not to take the problems of the world so seriously, and to have more faith in the ways of Allah.
    • From the back end of a bus, the City of York Council exhorts us to ‘cycle to work for a healthy heart’.
    • The big man repeatedly exhorts his fans to be leaders not followers, but like good followers, they obey his every word.
    • Another passage was the one where Miss Brodie exhorts her girls to be sure to recognise their prime and to live it to the full.
    • She gently admonished the translator, a man, by exhorting him not to be chauvinistic by distorting facts.
    • He simply exhorts parents, in the tradition of the uplifting revivalist, to do the things that will focus their kids on school and prepare them for better lives.
    • He lauded the school for encouraging sports and exhorted young sportsmen to make strides in sports and academics.
    • Apart from condemning the U.S. and its allies as well as warning against their plans of further aggression, the documentary exhorts the people to boycott the U.S. products.
    • He's in constant mobile communication with an unseen editor who, like a devil on his shoulder, exhorts Dave to distort and exaggerate the story.
    • The government exhorts us to get off the roads and onto the railway, but it may not have considered the opposite proposition.
    • However, our co-ops have a crucial role to play, which must go well beyond exhorting farmers to get bigger and leaner.
    • With a pointing finger, he exhorts the crowd of young law students to stop the assault on the powerless.
    • It exhorts viewers to fight against divisive forces that disrupt the peace of a nation, says Sundar.
    • China's national anthem exhorts its citizens to move forward and resist foreign aggressors.
    • Meanwhile, Mr. Deshprabhu exhorts future students of animation to specialise in specific software.
    • To get workers charged up, he exhorts his troops to act like entrepreneurs, take risks, and own up to failure quickly.
    • Moral consequentialism exhorts us to choose between different modes of life as well as different choices within each mode.
    • The counsellor exhorts him to unswervingly stick to his ART regimen along with a rich, nutritional diet.
    Synonyms
    urge, encourage, call on, enjoin, adjure, charge, try to persuade, press, pressure, put pressure on, use pressure on, pressurize, lean on, push
    egg on, spur, incite, goad
    bid, appeal to, entreat, implore, beseech
    advise, counsel, admonish, warn

Derivatives

  • exhortative

  • adjective ɛɡˈzɔːtətɪvɪɡˈzɔːtətɪvɪɡˈzɔrdədɪv
    • My problem with today's liturgical bureaucracy is that it advances measurable technical goals at the same time it diminishes the more essential immeasurable exhortative ones at the heart of EACW.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As in EACW, its emphasis is exhortative and encouraging, not technical.
      • Here, the voice is not imperative, and it does not try to address the viewer directly; rather, it is exhortative, and it implicitly addresses, in plain Italian, the Italian team.
      • He described Divine Beauty as ‘neither philosophy nor theology, neither spiritual nor doctrinal, neither critical nor exhortative but rather a delighted dance of all these elements’.
      • He has mobilized his decades of work in social and cultural history in order to write this exhortative book exploring the value of images for historical writing.
  • exhortatory

  • adjective ɪɡˈzɔːtət(ə)ri
    • Giving strong encouragement to do something.

      敦促;激励;勉励;规劝

      sermons and other exhortatory works
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The President, we should note, is pretty much the only orator still using the exhortatory imperative form favoured by the Emperor Augustus and the other great chiefs of Roman history.
      • It is, of its nature, penal rather than exhortatory.
      • There also is some superficial similarity with eugenicism in terms of an exhortatory jargon for human self-improvement, but I wouldn't press this point.
  • exhorter

  • noun
    • During the 18th century, John Wesley became a a fervent exhorter of work.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In addition to ministers, many Baptist churches had ruling elders, assistants, exhorters, deacons, deaconesses, elderesses, and evangelists.
      • But his excursions into theology are not impressive - he was an exhorter, not a systematizer.
      • Nor is there any intention to suggest that the teacher should become a preacher or exhorter, even for so good an end as the general welfare.
      • In Delaware, Allen also encountered exhorters of the Methodist Society, then still affiliated with the Church of England.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French exhorter or Latin exhortari, from ex- 'thoroughly' + hortari 'encourage'.

Rhymes

abort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought

Definition of exhort in US English:

exhort

verbiɡˈzôrtɪɡˈzɔrt
  • with object and infinitive Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

    敦促;激励;勉励;规劝

    with direct speech “Come on, you guys,” exhorted Linda

    “快点,小伙子们”,琳达催促道。

    the media have been exhorting people to turn out for the demonstration

    媒体一直在鼓动人们上街举行示威。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • China's national anthem exhorts its citizens to move forward and resist foreign aggressors.
    • The counsellor exhorts him to unswervingly stick to his ART regimen along with a rich, nutritional diet.
    • The big man repeatedly exhorts his fans to be leaders not followers, but like good followers, they obey his every word.
    • He exhorts me not to take the problems of the world so seriously, and to have more faith in the ways of Allah.
    • The government exhorts us to get off the roads and onto the railway, but it may not have considered the opposite proposition.
    • He simply exhorts parents, in the tradition of the uplifting revivalist, to do the things that will focus their kids on school and prepare them for better lives.
    • She gently admonished the translator, a man, by exhorting him not to be chauvinistic by distorting facts.
    • She exhorts parents to teach their young that there is beauty and strength in diversity.
    • With a pointing finger, he exhorts the crowd of young law students to stop the assault on the powerless.
    • From the back end of a bus, the City of York Council exhorts us to ‘cycle to work for a healthy heart’.
    • To get workers charged up, he exhorts his troops to act like entrepreneurs, take risks, and own up to failure quickly.
    • Moral consequentialism exhorts us to choose between different modes of life as well as different choices within each mode.
    • Another passage was the one where Miss Brodie exhorts her girls to be sure to recognise their prime and to live it to the full.
    • Meanwhile, Mr. Deshprabhu exhorts future students of animation to specialise in specific software.
    • It exhorts viewers to fight against divisive forces that disrupt the peace of a nation, says Sundar.
    • She exhorts her audience to put up banners and posters on the highways and byways.
    • He lauded the school for encouraging sports and exhorted young sportsmen to make strides in sports and academics.
    • Apart from condemning the U.S. and its allies as well as warning against their plans of further aggression, the documentary exhorts the people to boycott the U.S. products.
    • He's in constant mobile communication with an unseen editor who, like a devil on his shoulder, exhorts Dave to distort and exaggerate the story.
    • However, our co-ops have a crucial role to play, which must go well beyond exhorting farmers to get bigger and leaner.
    Synonyms
    urge, encourage, call on, enjoin, adjure, charge, try to persuade, press, pressure, put pressure on, use pressure on, pressurize, lean on, push

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French exhorter or Latin exhortari, from ex- ‘thoroughly’ + hortari ‘encourage’.

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