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spur
释义
- v.
- 刺激；激励；促进；鞭策
- n.
- 刺激；激励；鞭策；靴刺
- 网络
- 距；马刺；踢马刺
展开详细释义
v.
1.以马刺刺激;驱策;激励:
2.刺激,推动,教唆,煽动,鞭策,鼓舞
3.促使,促进,推动;鼓励,激发
4.用靴刺踢;装靴刺[刺铁等]
5.用靴刺踢马,催马前进;驱赶
6.督促
7.斗鸡时用距铁踢[踢伤]
8.疾驰
9.飞驰
n.
1.刺激物,鼓励品;促进器;教唆,挑拨,煽动,鼓舞,刺激
2.刺激,推动力;补品,好的…事
3.〔林〕短枝,短果枝;〔铁〕支线
4.(攀耙用)刺铁;(登山用)铁钉助爬器
5.后爪
6.山嘴,山峦
7.劲
8.树根;【动物;动物学】(鸟类、虫类等的)距;(斗鸡时加于鸡腿上的)距铁;【植物;植物学】(花)距;短枝;(军舰的)冲角
9.踢马刺,靴刺,马扎子;【历史】金踢马刺
10.山嘴,山鼻子;石嘴,尖坡,悬岩;支脉,横岭;【建筑】凸壁;支撑物;【铁路】支线;【代】迹(数)
词形变化
复数：spurs 过去分词：spurred 现在分词：spurring
常用短语 5 组
- spur gear
- n. [机]正齿轮
- spur on
- 驱使；鼓励；飞驰
- spur dike
- 丁坝；排水坝；挑水坝
- spur track
- 支路；（铁路的）支线
- spur line
- 延线；（货物）支线
在例句中理解 35 句
"The rivaling poor Jones, and supplanting him in her affections, added another spur to his pursuit" (Henry Fielding).
“对抗的可怜的琼斯，以及用她的影响取代他的位置的举动进一步刺激了他的追求”（亨利•费尔汀）。
Acting on the spur of the moment, he said he'd take the job.
他突然心血来潮，说要干这项工作。
The specter of every country trying to devalue more than competitors to spur exports stirs frightening images of the Great Depression.
为了刺激出口，每个国家都试图让本币的贬值幅度超过竞争对手，这种恐惧使人们回想起大萧条时期的恐怖画面。
The band you went to see on that wet Tuesday after work on the spur of the moment is likely to be literally incomparable.
在阴雨的周二下班后，你去看的那个乐队演出，那种欢欣鼓舞的时刻可能确实是无可匹敌的。
He had not planned to take the trip; he just went on the spur of the moment.
他事先没有计划这趟旅行，只是一时高兴就走了。
What information should my utility company (or others) be sharing with me that will spur me to use less energy?
我的公共公司（或其它公司）需要提供哪些信息，才能刺激我去节省更多的能源？
Though the U. S. is still burdened with a large deficit, officials argue that its ambitious stimulus program has helped spur growth.
尽管美国仍背负着巨额赤字，官员们却说，美国规模宏大的刺激计划帮助推动了增长。
Carlisle wasn't considering age too intently, as each of these decisions was spur-of-the-moment as well as life-or-death.
对于年龄卡莱尔并没有太多的考量，每一个都是在生死关头争分夺秒所作出的决定。
In the next few weeks, the Federal Reserve is expected to inject vast sums of money into the economy in another attempt to spur growth.
在接下来的几周内，预计美联储会向市场注入大量资金，来进一步刺激经济增长。
The Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are trying to push down borrowing costs to spur faster growth.
美联储（FederalReserve）和英国央行（BankofEngland）都试图降低贷款成本，以便刺激经济更快增长。
They may decide to go for a weekend in Thailand on the spur of the moment, and the personal assistant has to make it happen.
他们可能一时冲动，决定去泰国度周末，这位私人秘书就只好让美梦成真。
moreover, so insistent was the spur within me that to stop my poetic adventure was a matter of sheer impossibility.
而且，我内心抒发情感的激情如此迫切，若要阻止我写作诗歌的冒险的历程简直是不可能的事情。
They had no one who came up with wacko ideas on the spur of the moment, and no one who could keep options open for a while.
没有人能突发奇想想出什么疯狂的主意，而且没有人可以在一段时间内，对不同方案保持开放的心态。
Mr Obama's subsidies for green technology fattened the bottom line of a few chosen firms but did very little to spur jobs.
奥巴马政府在绿色科技领域的补贴计划养肥了一批经过筛选且处于低谷的公司，但在促进就业方面收效甚微。
And that change taught me that letting loose and giving in to a spur-of-the-moment1 idea is what life is all about.
从这个改变中我学到，放松一下自己、随着一时的冲动干点傻事才是生活真谛之所在。
If the timing's right, I'm ready to go out with a guy spur-of-the-moment.
如果时机合适，我会不假思索地跟一个男人出去。
The release of a long-awaited U. S. government plan to rid bank balance sheets of money-losing "toxic" assets has also been a big spur.
令人翘首企盼的美国政府清理银行“有毒”资产的计划，也是一个重要提振因素。
To BE good, a musician had not only to rememBEr his part but also to BE able to invent new variations on the spur of the moment.
要当个好乐师，不仅必须记住自己应演奏的部分，而且要能够即兴创作出新的变奏曲调。
With Treasurys yielding only 3%, it's not clear how much more demand the Fed will spur by getting them down to, say, 2. 5%.
由于财政部获利仅3%，例如美联通过降低利率到2.5%，它更能刺激多少需求还不得而知。
But so far it's unclear whether China's central government is ready to roll out consumer incentives to spur sales of electric cars.
不过，到目前为止尚不清楚中国中央政府是否准备推出消费激励措施，促进电动车的销售。
Eg. He got the air form Juliet just because he asked her to marry him on the spur of the moment.
他想Juliet求婚遭到拒绝，是因为他是在一时冲动之下向她求婚的。
His brothers said it was done on the spur of the moment, but his colleagues at al-Baghdadia said he had been planning it for months.
他的兄弟认为这只是一时冲动之举，而同在al-Baghdadia工作的同事则表示，他为此已经策划数月。
Scarce and expensive skilled labour is often a spur to invention.
稀缺而价格昂贵的技术劳动常常是发明创造的推动力量。
We know someone who recently made a spur-of-the-moment stop at an animal shelter and walked out a few minutes later with a new dog.
我们看到最近一些人在动物收留所门口一时冲动，几分钟后带着一条狗出来了。
His impending suicide was premeditated and not a spur-of-the-moment thing as he'd tried to have himself believe.
他即将自杀是有预谋而不是一个短枝型矩的事，因为他要试图有自己相信。
On the spur of the moment I decided to loan my sofa and my rug to my niece who was moving to a larger home.
我不假思索地就决定把我的沙发和我的小地毯借给我的侄女，她就要搬到一个较大的家了。
You sometimes act before you think and do things on the spur of the moment, and that sometimes gets you into trouble.
你有时会采取行动之前，你想，做的一时冲动，而且有时让你陷入麻烦的事情。
One of the best way to spur employees to higher levels of performance is to show them that doing so needs to promotions within the company.
最佳方式之一是刺激员工向更高水平的工作执行，表明这样做可以在在公司内部得到晋升。
Once you take the train to go halfway to A, but suddenly the spur of the moment in the B underground vehicle. Maybe is.
某次你搭火车打算到A地去，中途却忽然临时起意在B地下了车。也许是。
OK. OK. You're convinced me: Buying a puppy on the spur of the moment would be a dumb thing to do.
萨姆：好吧。好吧。我已经被你说服了：因一时冲动买狗，会是一件愚蠢的事。
The crowd’s reaction only acted as a spur.
人群的反应不过起了刺激作用。
The band were spurred on by the success of their last two singles.
乐队因最近两张单曲唱片的成功而深受鼓舞。
It was an article in the local newspaper which finally spurred him into action .
是当地报纸上的一篇文章最终促使他行动起来。
So they've said that passing trade bills with South Korea and Panama and Colombia would help spur growth -- those got done, with significant bipartisan support.
所以他们已经说过了，通过贸易法案与南韩和巴拿马和哥伦比亚将有助于刺激增长——那些搞，重要的两党支持。
Lower taxes would spur investment and help economic growth.
降低税率将刺激投资，有助于经济增长。