Word · Frequency #20104
hearten
使振作；鼓励
to give encouragement to someone
- 1.
To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.
给予信心；鼓励,激励,使振作,使高兴。
给予信心；鼓励,激励,使振作,使高兴。；使振作；激励；振作
In use
I was heartened by the team's warm welcome.
Her kind words heartened everyone in the room.
It heartens me to see so many volunteers helping.
hearten sb
The good news heartened everyone in the team.
好消息使团队中的每个人振作起来。
be heartened by sth
常用于被动语态
She was heartened by the support from her friends.
她因朋友们的支持而感到振奋。
hearten sb to do sth
The coach's words heartened the players to try harder.
教练的话激励了球员们更加努力。
Verb forms
base hearten · third person heartens · -ing heartening · past heartened · past participle heartened
规则动词，过去式和过去分词加-ed
Common mistakes
His encouragement heartened up me.His encouragement heartened me.
hearten是及物动词，后面直接跟宾语，不需要添加up。添加up是受短语动词cheer up的影响，但hearten没有这种用法。
The news is very heartened.The news is very heartening.
hearten的现在分词heartening表示“令人振奋的”，过去分词heartened表示“受到振奋的”。这里描述news的性质，应该用-ing形式。
Connections
Collocations
- be heartened by
- 受到…的鼓舞
- We were heartened by the news that the missing hikers had been found.得知失踪的徒步者被找到的消息，我们深受鼓舞。
- heartening news
- 令人振奋的消息
- The heartening news of the ceasefire brought hope to the region.停火这一令人振奋的消息给该地区带来了希望。
- greatly heartened
- 深受鼓舞
- The researchers were greatly heartened by the results of the trial.研究人员因试验结果而深受鼓舞。
- heartening sign
- 令人鼓舞的迹象
- The drop in crime rates is a heartening sign for the city.犯罪率下降对这个城市来说是一个令人鼓舞的迹象。
- be heartened to see
- 看到…感到鼓舞
- I was heartened to see the children helping each other.看到孩子们互相帮助，我感到鼓舞。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
hearten = heart + en，把勇气（heart）注入心中，使人振作。想象朋友灰心时，你递给他一颗心，他就有了信心。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、public speech、news report hearten 多用于正式或书面语境，口语中更常使用 encourage；被动形式 be heartened by 也比较常见。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 hear·ten /ˈhɑːtn/ 真正押韵的是 dishearten /dɪsˈhɑːtən/ 和 carton /ˈkɑːtən/（英式读音，末尾都是 /tən/）。注意：heart /hɑːt/ 只是去掉结尾的音节，不押韵；harden /ˈhɑːdən/ 只差一个字母，但 d 是浊音，不押韵；learn /lɜːn/ 和 earth /ɜːθ/ 拼写里都有 ear，但这个 ear 读 /ɜː/，与 heart 的 /ɑː/ 不同。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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