湖边社【每日一词】exhort - v. 忠告,劝诫,激励,敦促
Definition:
1 transitive verb : to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly
exhorting voters to do the right thing
2 intransitive verb: to give warnings or advice : make urgent appeals
exhorter n.n. 劝勉者,告诫者,提倡者
Synonyms
egg (on),encourage,goad,nudge,press,prod,prompt,urge
Examples of exhort in a Sentence
1 He exhorted his people to take back their land.
2 She exhorted her listeners to support the proposition.
3 And after a masked mob attacked anti-government student protesters in January 2020, the director flew to New Delhi, picked up a microphone and exhorted the students to fight on. —Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
4 Jensen in particular exhorted his readers to put our bodies and our lives between the industrial system and life on this planet. —Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
5 Romanticize your life, social media exhorts us, and so maverick shapes and infusions of ice, once the province of high-end mixologists, have become home projects, documented on TikTok in video tours of freezers reimagined as ice libraries. —Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023