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词汇 gladden
释义 gladden
verb[ T ]
 literaryuk /ˈɡlæd.ən/ us /ˈɡlæd.ən/
to make someone or something glad: 使高兴,使快乐,使喜悦
gladden someone’s heartThe news gladdened his heart.这消息令他心花怒放。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing pleasure
agreeable
agreeableness
agreeably
all things to all peopleidiom
attractive
delightfully
distraction
diverting
divertingly
do someone's heart goodidiom
indulgent
indulgently
jovial
jovially
keep on the right side of someoneidiom
sensuously
serendipitous
sweeten
swooning
swooningly

gladden | American Dictionary


gladden
verb[ T ]
us/ˈɡlæd·ən/
to make someone happy:
A visit to Disneyland is sure to gladden the heart of any 8-year-old.

Examples of gladden


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Such hybridity in the affairs of humankind might well gladden the heart of a historian in the grip of post-modernism.
No object of symbolic exchange could be more deserving or gladdened.
I have read no speech of recent years which has gladdened my heart more than that.
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It gladdens my heart to know that the figure which in 1946 was as high as 12,800 has been so greatly reduced.
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Anything that gets rid of even a few pages of the published subordinate legislation that is passed in any year gladdens my heart.
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The thing which gladdens me is the virtual disappearance of miners' nystagmus.
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I was gladdened by the announcement of further assistance for students of dance and drama to help with maintenance costs.
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Concerned as it is to stimulate the economy of the borrowing country, it is not inhibited—and this gladdens.
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Not all these proposals will gladden the hearts of company boards, already pressed by multitudes of problems, but none can deny their vital importance.
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I was gladdened that that was substantially on the basis of cross-party agreement.
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I am sure that what we have heard on the compensation arrangements will gladden the hearts of many of those affected.
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One of the things which gladdened my heart was to see the bipartisan policy was still fully in operation.
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I recalled also how far more frequently than that gladdening phenomenon, the people of that region saw derelict furnaces, derelict villages, and derelict men.
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I and my colleagues are gladdened by the widespread acceptance of the arguments and conclusions of the report.
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I think we may assume that these concessions will gladden the hearts of the boys and the parents.
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