词汇释义
exhort TEM8 TOEFL GRE
UK /ɪɡˈzɔːt/ US /ɪɡˈzɔːrt/
verb, If you exhort someone to do something, you try hard to persuade or encourage them to do it.规劝，劝诫，劝告
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外刊例句
1. The State Department guidance sheds little new light on the order but explicitly exhorts Americans to comply.(Reuters)
2. A letter in English and Spanish, on White House letterhead, exhorts needy Americans to wash hands and maintain social distance, closing with: “We will support Americans’ recovery every step of the way.(Washington Post)
3. A website touting the Partnership’s efforts, retirementtax.org, exhorts readers to provide their personal information and sign what appears to be an online petition: “Help Us Defeat The Retirement Tax!”(Reuters)
4. China’s legislature made some tweaks to the law before passing it, notably to exhort Chinese government agencies to do a better job of protecting corporate trade secrets.(New York Times)
5. Goldman Sachs exhorted its employees to keep its “broad and diverse client base around the world” in mind when deciding what to wear, as did J.P.(Seattle Times)
6. In Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, the future US president exhorted the value of talking big.(The Guardian)
7. Another WhatsApp message exhorted Hindus to vote for the B.J.P. because “this is not just an election. This is a war of faiths.”(New York Times)
8. In a note to clients last week, he exhorts his economic brethren to stop the ridiculous prognostications, and instead, provide meaningful value to clients.(Seattle Times)
9. Jeff Weiss and April Wolfe, who until last week were a music columnist and film critic for LA Weekly, turned to Twitter to exhort readers, advertisers and event sponsors to boycott the paper.(Los Angeles Times)
10. Ahead of the Brexit vote, President Barack Obama exhorted Britons to stay in the EU and warned that if they left they would be at "the back of the queue" for a U.S. trade deal.(Reuters)
11. Business leaders are routinely exhorted to learn from, and even celebrate, their mistakes.(TheEconomist)
12. But he bravely exhorted residents of the city not to flee the killings, and helped in efforts to restore order and rebuild torn communities.(TheEconomist)
词汇搭配
exhort sb to do sth
词汇家族
exhorts, exhorted, exhorting, exhortation
词汇来源
c. 1400, exhorten, "to exhort, encourage," from Old French exhorer (13c.) and directly from Latin exhortari "to exhort, encourage, stimulate," from ex, here probably "thoroughly" (see ex-) + hortari "encourage, urge" (from PIE root *gher- (2) "to like, want").
近义词
encourage, persuade, spur, goad, press, prod, prompt
反义词
discourage, dishearten, deter, hinder dissuade, constrain, curb, inhibit
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