He bought me CDs to encourage my liking for music.

他给我买了CD光盘来鼓励我对音乐的爱好。

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To give Linda her due, she had tried to encourage John in his school work.

为琳达说句公道话，她曾尽力在学习方面鼓励约翰。

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They'd got a special grant to encourage research.

他们已得到了一笔用来支持研究的特别补助金。

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"It shows mangroves are probably pretty good candidates for things like carbon-market trading to encourage sustainable forest management."

VOA: special.2011.05.10

That's why many of them are thinking really very hard of how to foster entrepreneurship, how to encourage innovation.

这就是为什么大家都在思索,如何才能培养企业家精神，如何鼓励创新。

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What I tried to do was to encourage the children not only to learn about a new culture, the Japanese Culture, from this Star Festival, but to also start thinking about what their own background was.

我所做的就是鼓励孩子们,不仅仅是通过七夕节来，了解全新的日本文化，而更要开始思考,自身的文化背景。

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The First Minister told him that "we need to encourage cultural and behavioural change".

BBC: NEWS | Programmes | BBC Parliament | Scotland: First Minister's Questions (11/03/04)

The aim is to encourage banks to start lending to each other again and restore investor confidence.

BBC: Germany's financial rescue package

And we continue to encourage both sides to come back together in direct negotiations.

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