emboldened

英 [ɪmˈbəʊldənd]

美 [ɪmˈboʊldənd]

v.  使增加勇气; 使更有胆量; 使更有信心; 将(文本)变成粗体
embolden的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：emboldened　过去式：emboldened　

COCA.32713

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使有胆量;使有信心;鼓励
  If youare emboldened bysomething, it makes you feel confident enough to behave in a particular way.
  1. The Prime Minister was steadily emboldened by the discovery that he faced no opposition...
     发现自己并未遭到反对，首相渐渐有了信心。
  2. Four days of non-stop demonstrations have emboldened the anti-government protesters.
     持续4天不间断的示威使反政府抗议者士气高涨。

英英释义

adj

• made bold or courageous

双语例句

• This emboldened Mr Greenberg and a group of investors led by the billionaire Eli Broad to attack AIG's management and demand boardroom changes.
  这让格林伯格和一群以亿万富翁艾利•布洛德（EliBroad）为首的投资者壮起了胆攻击美国国际集团的管理层，并要求改革董事会。
• Their encouragement emboldened him to accept the challenge.
  他们的鼓励使他鼓起勇气接受挑战。
• Emboldened by this success, he had begged a further favour.
  这次的成功壮了他的胆，所以他便提出了进一步的请求。
• Its emboldened our competitors.
  我国的竞争对手感到可以借此壮胆。
• Wonderful civility this! It emboldened me to ask a question.
  多么彬彬有礼啊！于是我大着胆子问了个问题。
• His success emboldened him to expand his business.
  他有了成就因而激发他进一步扩展业务。
• Rising inequality, corruption and woeful inadequacies in the education and health systems have emboldened some leftwing critics of the reform process.
  不平等程度加深、腐败现象，以及教育和医疗体系的不完善，增强了那些对改革进程持批评态度的左翼人士的勇气。
• Many state-sponsored actors will no doubt be emboldened by the spectacular success of the Sony breach.
  黑客在索尼一事上取得的巨大成功无疑会令不少由国家赞助的网络攻击参与者感到大受鼓励。
• I have been emboldened to make these remarks partly by the scepticism shown in his memoirs by Alan Greenspan, the former US Federal Reserve chairman, who admitted only that forecasts performed a useful consistency check.
  我之所以斗胆说这些话，在一定程度上是受到艾伦•格林斯潘（AlanGreenspan）在回忆录中表现出的怀疑态度的鼓舞。这位美联储前主席仅仅承认，预测是一种检验连贯性的有用方法。
• Washington's struggles to influence events in Crimea may further have emboldened China, he said.
  他说，华盛顿试图影响克里米亚局势的努力失败可能已经使中国更为大胆。