| 单词 | urge |
| 释义 | urge I. transitive verb 1. < the psychiatrist urged greater cooperation between the psychiatrist and the general practitioner — Current Biography > < opportunity to urge her point of view — Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington > < alert observers urged more forcefully that our country must hurry to develop its military power — Herbert Feis > < let me urge this thought upon you — Dean Acheson > 2. < the attack … is being violently urged wherever the winter conditions permit — Manchester Guardian Weekly > 3. a. < they urge us to stop thinking and do something — M.R.Cohen > b. < men … living in much the same way, urged by the same hungers — Marjory S. Douglas > < three general purposes have urged me to the task — R.E.Coker > 4. a. < urged on by a pair of automatic pistols — Eric Linklater > < mustered the ladies together and urged them into another room — Maurice Cranston > < wedges are driven in to urge the trunk in the required direction — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > b. (1) < through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight — Alexander Pope > (2) archaic c. < red-jacketed dragoons urged their horses in furious pursuit — F.V.W.Mason > 5. < urge not my father's anger — Shakespeare > < men urged their land with perpetual stinking fertilizing — Pearl Buck > intransitive verb 1. < appeared before the House Banking Committee to urge against the adoption of an amendment — Current Biography > 2. < she urged toward him — Maurice Hewlett > 3. Synonyms: < the American tendency to urge youngsters to early independence was contrasted with the French practice of encouraging the young to remain dependent for a longer time upon parental guidance — Dorothy Barclay > < the old president urged the new president to take it easy, not to destroy himself with zeal — H.F.Wilkins > egg suggests encouraging, stimulating, or whetting a will or inclination that is hesitant, laggard, or dull < egged me to borrow the money — Rudyard Kipling > < egg on one of their number to sing — Edmund Wilson > exhort may suggest the ardent urging or admonishing of an orator or preacher < exhorted his friend to confess, and not to hide his sin any longer — George Eliot > < the situation was of the strangest and gravest description, but the public was exhorted to avoid and discourage panic — H.G.Wells > goad may suggest an exciting, driving, or irritating to action suggestive of driving animals with pointed sticks < the harsh ruling only goaded the Indians into fiercer resistance — R.A.Billington > < must goad the slack part of his orchestra by the constant implied threat of dismissal — J.N.Burk > prod may suggest a driving to action as if with a stick or rod but is gentler in suggestion than goad < Indians grew hungry and hatred of the white man prodded them into open hostilities — Julian Dana > < enough public support to prod congressmen on both sides to furnish the necessary votes — Newsweek > spur often suggests the use of a spur or sharp spike on the flanks of a lagging horse < spurred to earnest effort — M.L.Bonham > < an aching conscience was the chief thing that spurred me on — John McNulty > prick, similar to spur, may refer to inciting or impelling as if by something with a sharp point < tries only to prick the student into a desire for truth — Barbara Buckley > < rely on their animal instinct and developed reflexes to prick them into awareness when danger threatened — Fred Majdalany > sic, orig. used as a command to a dog, may indicate an inciting to attack or worry < a civilized nation sicced on the Barbary whelps to tear the peaceful passerby — J.R.Spears > II. 1. 2. < many young men had the urge to participate in the new venture — R.J.Dubos > especially < that almost mystic urge to climb can dominate your whole life — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas > Synonyms: see desire |
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