exhortation
exhortation 英 [egzɔː'teɪʃ(ə)n] 美 [,ɛgzɔr'teʃən]
n. 讲道词，训词；劝告
名词复数:exhortations
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- n. 讲道词，训词；劝告
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1. However, years of exhortation have failed to persuade most of those affected actually to do this.
但是，多年来，这样的劝告并没有说服大多数肥胖的人们去真正付诸实践。
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2. The suit is accompanied by a line from Milk's taped premonition, partly quoted in the film, that he might be assassinated and his exhortation that gays come out of the closet.
衣服的旁边注有这样一句话，摘自缪克的关于他可能被暗杀以及劝告男同性恋应该走出黑屋的并且在影片中部分被引用的曾被录音的预言。
- exhortation (n.) late 14c., from Old French exhortacion and directly from Latin exhortationem (nominative exhortatio) "an exhortation, encouragement," noun of action from past participle stem of exhortari "to exhort, encourage," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + hortari "encourage, urge" (from PIE root *gher- (2) "to like, want"). From early 15c. as "speech for the purpose of exhortation."
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