spur是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to encourage an activity or development or make it happen faster -- 激勵，鞭策；促進，加速

  • Rising consumer sales have the effect of spurring the economy to faster growth. 消費的成長有刺激經濟加速發展的作用。

  • Spurred (on) by her early success, she went on to write four more novels in rapid succession. 受到之前成功的鼓勵，她緊接著又連續寫了四部小說。

• 1 to push spurs into the side of a horse to make it go faster -- （用馬刺）策（馬）前行

  • He spurred his horse on and shouted "Faster! Faster!" 他用馬刺策馬向前，嘴裡喊著「駕！駕！」

• 2 a sharp, wheel-shaped metal object that is attached to the heel of boots worn by people riding horses and is used to encourage the horse to go faster -- 馬刺，靴刺

• 3 a high piece of land that sticks out from a mountain or a group of mountains -- 山嘴，尖坡

• 4 something that acts as an encouragement for an activity or development -- 刺激；激勵

  • The manager said that the team's win on Saturday would be a spur to even greater effort this season. 主教練說球隊週六的勝利將會激勵全隊在本賽季中有更好的表現。