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propel

/pruh-pel/US // prəˈpɛl //UK // (prəˈpɛl) //

推动,推进,促进,推动

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pro·pelled, pro·pel·ling.

    • : to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
    • : to impel or urge onward: Urgent need of money propelled him to take a job.

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Examples

  • Both batteries propel the car another 30 miles in the rear-wheel drive versions.

  • The results propelled a centuries-old debate on the nature of self and other into a new, scientifically-grounded era.

  • A collision shop specializing in Teslas overflows with gleaming battery-propelled metal bodies that spill out across the broken sidewalk.

  • He managed to bust a few myths about his “alternative” positions on several subjects, and at times managed to sound far more nuanced than his meme-propelled, trolling Twitter feed.

  • Leachman attended Northwestern University on a drama scholarship, did modeling and won the Miss Chicago beauty contest, which propelled her to the 1946 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City.

  • Barack Obama used the Internet and social media to propel himself to the presidency.

  • Near the banks, the water is shallow and her palm frond oars propel her.

  • That resistance to foreign adventurism helped propel him to the presidency and keep him there.

  • Typically, the power used to propel the water is derived from steam heat, which is turn generated by burning natural gas.

  • But for a Hyperserial to truly be successful, you need a compelling question to propel the show forward.

  • Desiring to propel my hand sled with power transmitted by cranks and wheels, I set about to procure the necessary materials.

  • Being a man much moved to write, he comes to be so sensitive that even a puff of wind will propel him into an essay.

  • More than fifty years ago I ascertained that steam might be made to propel machinery.

  • Don pushed and pushed for all he was worth and managed to propel the clumsy raft further toward shore.

  • But the dirty, torn sails which the children saw did not promise to hold wind enough to propel the water-logged craft.