urge
英 ['ɜːdʒ]
美 [ɝdʒ]
- vt. 力勸，催促；驅策，推進
- n. 強烈的欲望，迫切要求；推動力
- vi. 強烈要求
助記提示
1. 諧音“額急”--- 我急。
2. 發音聯想：餓急，（我餓急了，快點上菜和飯呀）
中文詞源
urge 催促來自PIE*wreg, 推，驅動，詞源同wreak, wrack.
英文詞源
- urge
- urge: [16] Urge was borrowed from Latin urgēre ‘push, press, compel’. Its present participle gave English urgent [15], which thus means etymologically ‘pressing’.
=> urgent - urge (v.)
- 1550s, from Latin urgere "to press hard, push forward, force, drive, compel, stimulate," from PIE root *wreg- "to push, shove, drive" (cognates: Lithuanian verziu "tie, fasten, squeeze," vargas "need, distress," vergas "slave;" Old Church Slavonic vragu "enemy;" Gothic wrikan "persecute," Old English wrecan "drive, hunt, pursue"). Related: Urged; urging.
- urge (n.)
- 1610s, "act of urging," from urge (v.). Marked as "rare" in Century Dictionary (1902); "in frequent use from c. 1910" [OED].
雙語例句
- 1. He had an urge to open a shop of his own.
- 他很想自己開一家店。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He denounces people who urge him to alter his ways.
- 他指責那些督促他改變習慣的人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Once inside her apartment she felt an urge to brush her teeth.
- 一回到自己的公寓，她就有一種想要刷牙的衝動。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Tsvetayeva was possessed by a frenzied urge to get out of Moscow.
- 茨維塔耶娃內心有一種想要離開莫斯科的狂熱衝動。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. We urge colleges and universities to demystify the selection process.
- 我們敦促各學院和大學澄清其甄選學生的過程。
來自柯林斯例句