encourage ·verb (MAKE MORE LIKELY)

Definition: to make someone more likely to do something, or to make something more likely to happen Level: B1

我们在学校被鼓励学习外语。

We were ___encouraged to learn foreign languages at school.

修剪植物会促进生长。

Cutting back plants will ___encourage growth.

我认为去那里会很棒，所以我鼓励他们去做。

I thought it would be great to go and I ___encouraged them to do it.