exhortations

英 [ˌɛgzɔːˈteɪʃənz]

美 [ˌɛgˌzɔrˈteɪʃənz]

n.  讲道词，训词；劝告
exhortation的复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 规劝;劝诫;劝告
  If youexhortsomeonetodo something, you try hard to persuade or encourage them to do it.
  1. Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence...
     肯尼迪劝诫听众远离暴力。
  2. He exhorted his companions, 'Try to accomplish your aim with diligence'.
     他劝诫同伴说：“要通过勤奋努力实现自己的目标。”

双语例句

• Too many books whose titles are heavy with promise turn out to be all hat and no cattle – not enough take home after you deduct the generalities and exhortations to "focus" and "visualize" your goals.
  现在有太多宣称能够给你承诺的书籍，然后再扣除通常的“关注”、“明确”目标的字眼后，你会发现根本没必要把它们带回家。
• Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force.
  这些警告只会产生敌对关系，因为大量的质量和生产效率低下的原因是由于系统得问题，其超出了工人的能力范围。
• Animated by the example and exhortations of their generals, they obtained a footing upon the bridge itself, and began to remove the obstacles by which it was blockaded.
  敌兵由于他们的将领身先士卒和不断鼓励，杀到了桥上，已经占有立脚点，开始拆除封锁桥梁的障碍了。
• Employees place these exhortations on desks and walls with the same resignation as the Czech greengrocer.
  带着与那位捷克蔬菜水果商相同的顺从，雇员们把这类训词放在写字台和墙上。
• This strong sense of exhortations held by the writers in the Song Dynasty is directly related to moralizing functions of novels imposed on by the times.
  宋代文言小说作者这种强烈的劝惩意识，与时代对文学教化功能的重视有直接的关系。
• Yet exhortations by regulators and bankers 'associations to limit interest on interbank deposits were futile.
  为抑制对银行间存款的兴趣，监管机构和银行业协会也曾谆谆告诫，但未见任何效果。
• China has a national climate-change programme with an elaborate series of targets and exhortations to cope.
  中国建立了国家应对气候变化项目，制定了一系列详细指标和鼓励政策，应对气候变化问题。
• Despite the exhortations of the union leaders the workers voted to strike.
  尽管工会领导再三劝告，工人们仍然投票决定罢工。
• She disregarded our repeated exhortations.
  她不顾我们的一再劝告。
• I thought back to those plaintive cliff top exhortations, Just come here and realise your dreams, and wondered what Teresa Teng would make of it all.
  我又想起悬崖上大喇叭里的那些充满哀伤语气的劝词：到我们这边来，你会梦想成真，不知邓丽君再世，会如何理解这一切？