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propelled

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

推进的,推动的,被推进的,被推动的

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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

  • When Bridget Rose Dugdale was arrested at a remote cottage on the coast of West Cork in Ireland in the spring of 1974, it was the culmination of her career as an IRA-adjacent, self-propelled political activist, terrorist and art-heist mastermind.

  • The spike propelled the region’s number of confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic to more than 400,000 infections.

  • When done properly, subscription-based businesses create a flywheel effect that can propel growth.

  • Now, as the transportation industry increasingly moves toward electric vehicles, Formula E could be the test lab that propels the sector forward.

  • With so many people infected, and smaller gatherings propelling the pandemic, it’s easy to see how Thanksgiving could turn into a nationwide superspreading event that just makes things worse.

  • Fighting words like those that propelled his team to the top of the industry, but it looks like that drive might have been sapped.

  • Evidence of the interest of this respected figure propelled Vieira on his quest.

  • She was eventually nominated for an Oscar for her performance, which immediately propelled her to the Hollywood A-list.

  • His companions—one a woman—urge him to let loose with a rocket-propelled grenade and he fires.

  • But in recent years, a combination of several factors has propelled it into a leader.

  • This last spear is propelled by a throwing-stick, which was also found lying by it.

  • The great Dam at Assouan was just completed and we traversed its entire length on a trolley propelled by natives.

  • The pneumatic vacuum tubes which propelled the trains on the South Devon Railway, failed to give the power that was expected.

  • They have helped men to understand that the machinery of the universe is propelled by the unending application of power.

  • Coming to the first of the dim shapes, he grasped it and thereby propelled the skiff to another beyond.

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