encourage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 鼓励， 怂恿，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I longed to console and encourage her somehow, and to assure her that she was not the low, base thing which she and others strove to make out; but I don't think she understood me.
-- XIII HE prince was very nervous as he reached the outer door; Tbut he did his best to encourage himself with the reflec-tion that the worst thing that could happen to him would be that he would not be received, or, perhaps, received, then laughed at for coming.
-- It's a little dangerous, perhaps, to encourage this sort of freedom; but it is rather a good thing that he has arrived just at this moment.
-- Nina Alexandrovna has a grudge against me for, as she thinks, encouraging her husband in drinking; whereas in reality I not only do not encourage him, but I actually keep him out of harm's way, and out of bad company.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We other gods must all do as you bid us, but her you neither scold nor punish; you encourage her because the pestilent creature is your daughter.
-- He would even have set fire to the ships and burned them, had not Queen Juno put it into the mind of Agamemnon, to bestir himself and to encourage the Achaeans.
-- And now the fierce groanful fight again raged about -Patroclus, for Minerva came down from heaven and roused its fury by the command of far-seeing Jove, who had changed his mind and sent her to encourage the Danaans.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Strickland continued:"After all, if he had any talent I should be the first to encourage it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This inquiry involved the respected lady in rather a delicate position, for she certainly had been an active party in making her daughter Mrs Quilp, and, besides, it was not supporting the family credit to encourage the idea that she had married a man whom nobody else would have.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had first met this gallant gentleman at Geneva, Gowan had been undecided whether to kick him or encourage him; and had remained for about four-and-twenty hours, so troubled to settle the point to his satisfaction, that he had thought of tossing up a five-franc piece on the terms, 'Tails, kick; heads, encourage,' and abiding by the voice of the oracle.
-- Upon it, Gowan resolved to encourage him.
-- Her reply was, 'Do you mean to encourage Mr Sparkler, Fanny?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll read a bit to encourage you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And how dare you encourage him, you insolent minx?
-- inquired Rose: anxious to encourage any symptoms of good-humour in the unwelcome visitors.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had Mr. Collins not thus addressed her: 'When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accus-ing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.'
-- This information, however, startled Mrs. Bennet; she would have been glad to be equally satisfied that her daugh-ter had meant to encourage him by protesting against his proposals, but she dared not believe it, and could not help saying so.
-- The possibility of Mr. Collins's fancying herself in love with her friend had once occurred to Elizabeth within the last day or two; but that Charlotte could encourage him seemed almost as far from possibility as she could encour-age him herself, and her astonishment was consequently so great as to overcome at first the bounds of decorum, and she could not help crying out: 'Engaged to Mr. Collins!My dear Charlotte impossi-ble!'
-- I will not encourage the impudence of either, by receiving them at Longbourn.'
-- The vague and un-settled suspicions which uncertainty had produced of what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her sister's match, which she had feared to encourage as an exertion of goodness too great to be probable, and at the same time dreaded to be just, from the pain of obligation, were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true!He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could consult with her brother, could receive her sister-in-law on her arrival, and treat her with proper attention; and could strive to rouse her mother to similar exertion, and encourage her to similar forbearance.
-- It has been involuntary, and I will not encourage it.
-- CHAPTER 22Marianne, who had never much toleration for any thing like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of parts, or even difference of taste from herself, was at this time particularly ill-disposed, from the state of her spirits, to be pleased with the Miss Steeles, or to encourage their advances; and to the invariable coldness of her behaviour towards them, which checked every endeavour at intimacy on their side, Elinor principally attributed that preference of herself which soon became evident in the manners of both, but especially of Lucy, who missed no opportunity of engaging her in conversation, or of striving to improve their acquaintance by an easy and frank communication of her sentiments.
-- "I know it is," replied her mother seriously, "or after such a warning, I should be the last to encourage such affection, or even to be pleased by it.
扩展阅读：