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To chivvy someone is to keep pushing them to do something more quickly, often with little reminders, and often in a slightly way. “Come on, hurry up” said again and again is chivvying. It is mainly British and informal — a parent, a teacher, or a boss might chivvy you along; a law paper would not. You can chivvy people along, or chivvy them into finishing a job. Stop chivvying me means stop nagging me to go faster. Though actually, the feel depends on tone. Said lightly, it is just brisk; said with a sigh, it means you are being hassled. There is a rarer noun too, a chase or hunt, but almost only meet the verb. You will also see the spellings chivy and chevy for the same word. American speakers more often say hurry someone along, hassle, or nag.
催促、盯著趕（英式口語，常帶點煩）
組成From chivy, chevy, “to chase; to race, scamper”, from a noun meaning a chase, hunt, or pursuit. That name probably comes from the title of The Ballad of Chevy Chase, first published in The Complaynt of Scotland (1549). The ballad is about a hunt on a chase — a large country estate where game may be hunted — in the Cheviot Hills between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, and is thought to allude to the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chivvyverb/ˈt͡ʃɪvi/
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To coerce or hurry along, as by persistent request.
- Odd's wouns! it was a proper hunt. Away went my gentlemen, whooping like madmen, with their coat skirts flapping in the breeze, chivying on the dogs and having a rare morning's sport.
- Some customers could now be relied upon to send in their orders regularly and, apart from having to chivy those who had fallen behind with their payments, this allowed travellers to concentrate their energies on securing new customers and on recovering those who had been lost to competitors.
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To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
- He wos allus willin fur to give me somethink he wos, though Mrs. Sangsby she was allus a chivying on me—like everybody everywheres.
- So when I was done, and the fishing was as good as the start, I cut a long "staddle," with a bush at the top, and I just went for that school of trout. I chevied, harried and scattered them, up stream and down, until I could not see a fish.
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To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
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To pursue as in a hunt.
- to chivvy the fox
- The police were kept out of sight, and the amusements of the mob consisted chiefly in forming bodies which rushed from one end of the Park to the other, to the great injury of other rioters; or in hunting or "chivvying" any footman or remarkable person who should venture among them; some of these unfortunates were much injured.
chivvynoun/ˈt͡ʃɪvi/
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Something that encourages one to act; a goad, a spur.
- Although Mr [Paul] Hatcher is not sure how popular the site will be he has designed it to handle up to 10,000 requests an hour. "It's just there to act as a chivvy to London Underground," he said.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。