urging
urging — 名詞
- urgingsingular
- urgingsplural
1. strong advice or pressure meant to get someone to take a certain action
催促
強力勸人採取行動
strong advice or pressure meant to get someone to take a certain action
At Ada's urging, the school kept the library open after exams.
在 Ada 的催促下，學校在考試後仍讓圖書館開放。
pattern: at [person]'s urging
Repeated urging from neighbors finally made the landlord fix the stairs.
鄰居一再催促，房東終於找人把樓梯修好了。
collocation: repeated urging from [group]
Karim ignored his doctor's urging to rest for another week.
Karim 沒理會醫師要他再休息一週的催促。
pattern: urging to do [something]
The board approved the safety checks after strong urging from parents.
在家長強力催促後，董事會批准了安全檢查。
At Liang's urging, the shy singer returned for one more song.
在 Liang 的催促下，那位害羞的歌手又回來多唱了一首。
- at someone's urging
- after repeated urging
- strong urging from parents
- ignore someone's urging
- under strong urging
- pressure
broader and often stronger, sometimes with less warmth than urging.
- persuasion
stresses the process of talking someone into something rather than the pressure itself.
- encouragement
usually sounds more supportive and less forceful than urging.
- insistence
suggests a firmer demand that may leave less room for refusal.
- discouragement
active words or pressure aimed at stopping someone from acting.
文法句型
at [person]'s urging
urging to do [something]
urging from [group]
用法筆記
Often appears in patterns like at someone's urging or under strong urging from a group. It usually focuses on the pressure or repeated requests behind a decision, not on the decision itself.