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hortatory ['hɔ:təˌtoʊri:]

adj. 劝告的，激励的;

例句:

  • The vocabulary...appears couched imperatively and in a hortatory tone.
    来自T. Mo
  • Ultimately, the reductivism and hortatory optimism of Maoism proved too much.
    来自NEWYORKER
  • The conservative scholar James Q. Wilson called it bland, vague, hortatory and lacking in substance.
    来自WSJ