VERB (通常指用肘)轻推,轻碰(以引起注意) If you nudge someone, you push them gently, usually with your elbow, in order to draw their attention to something.
I nudged Stan and pointed again... 我轻轻推了推斯坦,又指了一下。
'Stop it,' he said, and nudged the boy lightly with his knee. “别这么干了,”他用膝盖轻轻碰了碰那个男孩说道。
Nudge is also a noun.
She slipped her arm under his and gave him a nudge. 她挽住他的胳膊,轻轻推了他一下。
VERB 轻轻地推动(或推向) If you nudge someone or something into a place or position, you gently push them there.
Edna Swinson nudged him into the sitting room... 埃德娜·斯温森把他推进了起居室。
The civil servant nudged him forward. 那个文职人员向前推了他一把。
Nudge is also a noun.
McKinnon gave the wheel another slight nudge. 麦金农又轻轻推了一下轮子。
VERB 劝说;鼓动 If you nudge someone into doing something, you gently persuade them to do it.
Bit by bit Bob had nudged Fritz into selling his controlling interest... 鲍勃一步一步劝说弗里茨卖掉了他的控股权益。
Foreigners must use their power to nudge the country towards greater tolerance... 外国人必须动用他们的力量促使这个国家变得更加宽容。
British tour companies are nudging clients to travel further afield. 英国旅游公司正鼓动客户到更远的地方去旅游。
Nudge is also a noun.
I had a feeling that the challenge appealed to him. All he needed was a nudge. 我感觉这个挑战对他颇具吸引力,他所需要的就是一点推动。
VERB 几乎达到;接近 If someone or something is nudging a particular amount, level, or state, they have almost reached it.
...a little-known stage play writer and actress who was nudging 40 and going nowhere... 一个年近四旬、一事无成、寂寂无闻的舞台剧作者兼演员
The temperature when we were there was nudging 80 degree F. 我们在的时候,那里温度接近80华氏度。
PHRASE 性关系;(尤指)性丑闻 If you refer to a nudge and a wink or to nudge-nudge wink-wink, you mean that someone is referring to sex, especially immoral sex, in an indirect way.
The article then listed a series of nudge-nudge, wink-wink rumors that have appeared in newspapers over the last two years. 文章接下来列举了过去两年间报纸上出现过的一连串性丑闻传言。
British tour companies are nudging clients to travel further afield. 英国旅游公司正鼓动客户到更远的地方去旅游。
The temperature when we were there was nudging 80 degree F. 我们在的时候,那里温度接近80华氏度。
Independent advisors may be nudging themselves onto deals where a second advisor is needed. 在需要第二名顾问的情况下,独立咨询机构或许毛遂自荐了。
Moreover, nudging people in the direction they already want to go by encouraging them to save, learn, behave healthily or bring up their children better is hardly a gross violation of liberty. 此外,通过鼓励人们储蓄、学习、过健康生活或更好地抚育子女,推动人们朝他们本来就希望的方向前进,这不能说是严重侵犯自由。
Some nudging tactics are straightforward or obvious. 一些督促策略是直白或是明显的。
Its latest mobile app can identify songs and films playing nearby, nudging users to write about them. 该公司最新推出的一款移动应用能分辨用户附近播放的歌曲和电影,并鼓励用户对它们做出评价。
Liberty and social equality mean that governments should adopt the lightest methods possible to address such social ills – they should label and advertise before nudging and banning. 自由和社会平等意味着,政府应当使用尽可能温和的方法解决此类社会痼疾&在推行轻敲型方案和颁布禁令之前,政府应当进行说明和宣传。
Nudging is one way of dealing with the problem. 督促是一种处理问题的方式。
Alas, few nudging initiatives are as ethically unambiguous as organ donation. 但是,很少有其他倡议像器官捐赠一样在道德上没有争议。
Exasperated White House officials have told me repeatedly there would not have been any European sanctions, never mind tough ones, without constant nudging and pushing from the White House. 愤怒的白宫官员们再三告诉我,如果不是白宫不断施压敦促,欧洲都不会实施制裁,更别说出台严厉的制裁措施了。
Inflation had been nudging upwards because of those oil prices. 通涨正悄然上涨缘于原油价格的上涨。
This is because your Soul-Self is nudging you to move forward, to expand your vision and to take control of your destiny. 这是因为你的灵性迫使你提升,扩展你的意识层面,自己掌控命运。
Nudging him in the right direction. 把他推向正确的方向。
Corporate-led "algorithmic nudging" promotes the illusion that problems can be solved through individual action alone. 企业主导的“算法说服”宣传这样的错觉:单靠个人行动就能解决问题。
It is nudging countries such as Venezuela to pay in yuan. 中国正在推动一些国家,如委内瑞拉,以人民币支付。
When I go into bars, for example, I always see people nudging each other. 比如说,我去酒吧的时候,总会看到人们偷偷地捅身边的人。
No amount of "nudging" towards faster differential calculus will help prevent dropped catches. 无论朝着更快速的微分计算进行多少“轻推”,也没法帮助减少接不到球的次数。
The limitless number of gear ratios also means that the nudging motion caused by shifting is no longer present. 无限数量的齿轮比也意味着一定范围内齿数将不再存在。
And if users ignore the hints, the device will stop nudging, until it comes across something else of potential interest. 如果用户忽略了这些提示,设备就会停止这个提示,直到下次再遇上可能会令人感兴趣的东西。
After that she began nudging me toward working with words. 于是就开始促使我作文字工作。
If behavioural economists do not really understand why we do what we do, there are surely limits and dangers to the project of nudging us to do it better. 如果行为经济学家并不真正理解我们的行为理由,那么“通过轻推让我们做到更好”的项目就必然存在限制和危险。
Policy makers might also be interested, since the company can take "nudging" the application of behavioural economics to policy a step further. 政策制定者可能也感兴趣,因为谷歌能够进一步发挥“说服”的作用把行为经济学应用到政策中。
They were nudging investors, not trying to frighten them into reversing the recent currency declines. 它们是在婉劝投资者,而不是试图恐吓他们,以逆转最近的汇率下跌走势。
The uprisings are nudging us towards seeing Arab countries through a Latin American prism. 最近的起义促使我们透过拉丁美洲的视角看待阿拉伯国家。
Earlier this year, most economists thought such growth was impossible at a time of deep global recession, but some are now nudging up their forecasts. 今年早些时候,在全球经济深度萧条的天时之下,大多数经济学家认为如此增长是无法实现的,但是有一些人现在已经推翻了自己的预测。
Forward leading indicators, including those measuring sentiment, are nudging upwards. 包括景气指标在内的前瞻性领先指标,都呈现出轻微上行趋势。
Strong growth with mild inflation is all the more amazing given the tripling of oil prices since 2003. Inflation had been nudging upwards because of those oil prices. 鉴于2003以来石油价格上涨了两倍,正是强势增长加上轻微的通货膨胀才促成了这一良辰美景。
Claud was grinning and nudging me in the ribs. 克劳德咧嘴笑着,还用肘轻推我的肋骨。
The evidence shows that infants enter extra uterine life with many strong perceptual biases and motoric dispositions already nudging them toward linguistically relevant patterns of stimulation. 这个证据说明,婴儿出生时就拥有强烈的认知上的偏好和运动神经上的预设,这使得它们对和语言相关的环境刺激产生了兴趣。