英 [ˈspɜːrɪŋ] 美 [ˈspɜːrɪŋ]
vt. 鼓动,激励;使更快发生;加速(spur 的现在分词)
spur /spɜː/ CET4 TEM4 [ spurring spurred spurs ]
及物动词 If one thing spurs you to do another, it encourages you to do it. 鼓动; 激励
It's the money that spurs these fishermen to risk a long ocean journey in their flimsy boats.
是金钱驱使这些渔民驾驶单薄的小船冒险出海远航。
动词词组 Spur on means the same as . 鼓动; 激励 (同)(spur)
Their attitude, rather than reining him back, only seemed to spur Philip on.
他们的态度非但没令菲利普回头,似乎只是激励他继续下去。
及物动词 If something spurs a change or event, it makes it happen faster or sooner. 使更快发生; 加速
The administration may put more emphasis on spurring economic growth.
政府可能会更加重视经济的加快增长。
可数名词 Something that acts as a spur to something else encourages a person or organization to do that thing or makes it happen more quickly. 促进因素; 推动
...a belief in competition as a spur to efficiency.
…一种认为竞争能促进效率提高的观点。
习语 If you do something on the spur of the moment, you do it suddenly, without planning it beforehand. 一时冲动之下
They admitted they had taken a vehicle on the spur of the moment.
他们承认一时冲动之下偷了一辆车。
骨刺
(烧制时用的)三角支架
距;足刺
花距
山鼻子,山嘴尖坡
... spurrier = 马刺制造者 spurring = 激励 spurs = 踢马刺 ...
The administration may put more emphasis on spurring economic growth.
政府可能会更加重视经济的加快增长。
The agreement is essential to spurring economic growth around the world.
这项协议对于促进世界经济的增长是至关重要的。
Now, this might sound a little spurring, even a little strange.
这听起来可能有点刺激,甚至有点奇怪。
Let me mention a few administration economic proposals, all couched in terms of controlling cost and spurring growth, all linked in one way or another to the economic crisis that was started during the housing bust.
让我们谈谈,政府的一些经济策略,全都归于,控制成本和刺激增长的名下,全部都与,金融危机有关,都是在房产市场萧条时出台的。
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This is not to suggest that freedom counts for nothing in spurring innovation.
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Growing demand for hummus has pushed up prices for chickpeas, spurring farmers to increase production.