0 to make someone feel happier and more positive about a situation -- 鼓勵，使振作
Anti-government protesters have been heartened by recent government promises of free and fair elections. 政府最近承諾的自由公正的選舉鼓舞了反政府示威者。
It is heartening that they partially overcame these reservations through visits to schools and contact with enthusiastic practitioners.
It is most heartening that even the most theoretical of papers in this symposium are working with actual implementations.
There was clearly some difference of opinion, which is heartening, as the author teams were asked to assign confidence limits to their major findings.
Some of these discs are less memorable musically than others, but it is heartening that they even exist.
This said, we are heartened by the fact that all significant associations uncovered in this study turned up in the hypothesized direction.
It was therefore heartening that more than 80 per cent of the respondents maintained a sense of usefulness.
That was very heartening as it seemed that people cared for the right reason.
In addition, she is heartened by the messages from former pupils passed on to her through her own children.
