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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He said the government must introduce tax incentives to encourage investment.

他说，政府必须通过给予税收利益来鼓励投资。

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Feed plants to encourage steady growth.

给植物施肥以促进其不断生长。

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

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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".

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

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

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