a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
any sharply pointed projection
tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
a railway line connected to a trunk line
双语例句
1. I may be so because there is some kind of power that spurs me—just as the silkworm is spurred to make its cocoons.
我之所以如此是因为有某种力量在鞭策着我——正如蚕被鞭策着去结它的茧子一般。
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2. I was spurred into action by the letter.
那封信激励我行动起来。
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3. Her difficult childhood spurred her on to succeed.
她艰辛的童年激励她取得成功。
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4. The band has been spurred on by the success of their last single.
最近一张单曲唱片的成功使乐队受到鼓舞。
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5. History is littered with men and women spurred into achievement by a father's disregard.
历史上常有受父亲漠视的刺激而取得成就的男男女女。
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6. Far from giving up the chase, this only spurred them on.
这非但没有使他们放弃追逐，反而激励了他们。
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7. New versions of the iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS spurred sales.
iPod Touch和iPhone3GS的新版本刺激了销售。
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8. Leah's growth spurred her to open her second studio—and it wasn't for the money.
莉娅的成长促使她开了第二间工作室，而非为了赚钱。
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9. Their lively discussions spurred Maura to make small but nevertheless life altering changes.
他们的热烈讨论促使莫拉做出了一些微小却能改变生活的改变。
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10. Their lively discussions spurred Maura to make small but nevertheless life-altering changes.
他们热烈的讨论促使莫拉做出了一些微小却能改变生活的变化。
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11. They took on a life of their own and they inspired the medieval imagination, spurred on the age of discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries.
他们以自己的方式生活，激发了中世纪的想象力，刺激了15至16世纪的大发现时代。
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12. The spurs cause blunt trauma to the shoulders which never have time to heal properly before the horse is ridden and spurred in another rodeo.
马刺造成肩膀的钝伤，这些伤从来都没有时间痊愈，因为马会被在另一场竞技秀中再次被骑和刺。
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13. Spurred on by funding policies, half of the European research articles had international co-authors in 2007, this is more than twice the level of two decades ago.
在资助政策的推动下，2007年有一半的欧洲研究论文有国际合作作者，这是20年前水平的两倍多。
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14. Spurred by the advent of social historical methods, a new generation of historians found Unionists interesting as manifestations of the Confederacy's internal weaknesses.
15. They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings.
