核心畫面

One way to see 'urge': a hand pressing steadily on someone's back, pushing them forward. Sometimes the push is made of words aimed at another person; sometimes the push is felt inside you, with nobody there to blame for it.

可以想成一隻手抵在別人背後,一直往前推的那股力道。這股力道有時候是用話推出去的——你不停催對方去做某件事;有時候它跑更多收起可以想成一隻手抵在別人背後,一直往前推的那股力道。這股力道有時候是用話推出去的——你不停催對方去做某件事;有時候它跑到自己身體裡面,沒有人在推你,你卻覺得非做不可。三個意思像是同一股推力,只是推的方向和推的人不一樣。

Two branches

推別人往前(動詞)

推力往外,落在另一個人身上:你希望他動起來、快一點、或走某個方向,於是用聲音、用話語一直施力。

cheer someone on · verb · C2

To encourage someone to keep going, try harder, or go faster, especially by shouting or cheering for them.

為(某人)加油打氣;激勵(繼續下去)

從心裡推出來的那股力(名詞)

同一股推力,只是換了位置:推的人不在外面,而在自己身體裡,所以它變成一個可以「有」也可以「忍住」的東西。

strong impulse · noun · C2

A strong feeling that makes you want to do something, especially one that is hard to control.

衝動;渴望

原始詞典資料9 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。

urgenoun/ɜːd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    A strong desire to do something.

    • After seeing the advert for a soft drink, I had a sudden urge to buy a bottle.
    • sexual urges

urgeverb/ɜːd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

    • Lo hapless Tydeus, whose ill-fated hand / Had slain his brother, leaves his native land, / And seized with horror in the shades of night, / Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight[…]
    • No longer do we tack and tack obediently to the demand of the Valkyries. A new power urges our ships independently of wind and tide. With the growth of steam power the crowning glory of the old ship departed.
  • 2

    To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

    • My boss urged me to reconsider my decision to leave the company, even offering a pay rise.
    • You do miſtake your buſines, my Brother neuer / Did vrge me in his Act : I did inquire it, / And haue my Learning from ſome true reports / That drew their ſwords with you, did he not rather / Diſcredit my authority with yours, / And make the warres alike againſt my ſtomacke, / Hauing alike your cauſe.
  • 3

    To provoke; to exasperate.

    • Vrge not my fathers anger (Eglamoure) / But thinke vpon my griefe (a Ladies griefe) / And on the iuſtice of my flying hence, / To keepe me from a moſt vnholy match, / Which heauen and fortune ſtill rewards with plagues.
    • “I can answer a civil question civilly,” said the youth ; “and will pay fitting respect to your age, if you do not urge my patience with mockery. Since I have been here in France and Flanders, men have called me, in their fantasy, the Varlet with the Velvet Pouch, because of this hawk-purse which I carry by my side ; but my true name, when at home, is Quentin Durward.”
  • 4

    To press hard upon; to follow closely.

    • Man ? and for ever ? wretch ! what wouldst thou have ? / Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
  • 5

    To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.

    • to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case
    • To be urging her opinion against Sir Thomas's, was a proof of the extremity of the case, but such was her horror at the first suggestion, that she could actually look him in the face and say she hoped it might be settled otherwise; in vain however; […]
  • 6

    obsoleteTo treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.

    • to urge an ore with intense heat
  • 7

    To press onward or forward.

  • 8

    To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。