Encouraging

(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' .

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• It is encouraging people to marry if you make so much of them. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• As regards its quantity and quality, the accounts are most encouraging. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Our out-of-door life easily threw one in my way, and I delicately said that there was a responsibility in encouraging Richard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Miss Price, will not you join me in encouraging your cousin? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The nondescript replied in encouraging terms, and brought him to a coffee-shop in the street within a stone's throw. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It was clear what the end would be, since Mary openly placed Farebrother above everybody, and these women were all evidently encouraging the affair. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was impossible to make the confession more dispassionately, or in a tone less encouraging to the vanity of the person addressed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He was of opinion, in fact, that southern people needed encouraging. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I returned an encouraging response. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmative! 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• I think your manners to him encouraging. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• After all, I was only encouraging the most absurd vanity, contrary to common sense. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And this is old Fitzurse's boasted policy, encouraging these malapert knaves to rebel against us! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There is always plenty, Herbert, said I, to say something encouraging. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I am very ill, Harriette, said the dear sufferer, with encouraging firmness, holding out her hand to me; but don't frighten yourself. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• 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? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Calhoun, from whom he received very encouraging letters. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Not that I imagine he can think I have been encouraging him hitherto. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Those days were heroic ones, for he then battled against mighty odds, and the prospects were dim and not very encouraging. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He could not believe her to be encouraging him. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It was encouraging a nasty class of intellectuals to interfere in the affairs of sound business men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He was a skilful master, and successful in his profession, employing the mildest and most encouraging methods. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• After I had pondered a little over this encouraging sentiment, I asked Mr. Jaggers if I could send for a coach? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It is chiefly by encouraging the manufactures of Europe, that the colony trade indirectly encourages its agriculture. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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