prodding

noun

1. 催促；督促；鼓励；激励
   encouragement to do sth
   1. He needed no prodding.
      他不用督促。

1. VERB （用手指或尖物）刺，戳，捅
   If you prod someone or something, you give them a quick push with your finger or with a pointed object.
   1. He prodded Murray with the shotgun...
      他用猎枪捅了捅默里。
   2. Prod the windowsills to check for signs of rot...
      戳一戳窗台板看看有没有朽烂的迹象。
   3. Cathy was prodding at a boiled egg.
      凯茜正在戳一个煮熟的鸡蛋。
   4. Prod is also a noun.
      
   5. He gave the donkey a mighty prod in the backside.
      他用力捅了一下驴屁股。
2. VERB 提醒；促使；督促
   If you prod someone into doing something, you remind or persuade them to do it.
   1. The report should prod the Government into spending more on the Health Service...
      这份报告将督促政府加大在卫生服务方面的支出。
   2. His remark prodded her to ask where Mora had gone.
      他的话提醒了她，她问莫拉去哪里了。
3. See also: cattle prod

1. No amount of prodding will budge him.
   不管怎么刺激都不会让他改变主意。
2. The boy needs constant prodding from his parents, otherwise he won't get his homework done.
   这孩子老得大人敲打，不然就不肯做功课。
3. Such disclosures about referral fees came only after prodding last year from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
   在去年美国证券交易委员会（SEC）的敦促下，公司才同意对此项收入情况进行披露。
4. But the primary reason that the US should not be prodding other countries to reduce their current account surpluses is that those surpluses finance their purchases of American government bonds.
   但美国不应逼迫其他国家减少经常账户盈余的主要理由是，那些盈余为这些国家购买美国政府债券提供了资金。
5. Books such as Jim Collins 'Good to Great have put a spotlight on organizational culture, prodding companies to look for speakers with expertise in that area, he says.
   他说，吉姆o柯林斯的《从优秀到卓越》（GoodtoGreat）这类书籍已经把聚光灯置于组织文化之上，从而激发公司寻找在这一领域拥有专长的演讲者。
6. The Apple Watch reminds you to get up& welcome prodding for those who spend hours in cars or planes.
   苹果手表提示你该站起来了&这对于那些要长时间在汽车或飞机里度过的人来说是个很好的提醒。
7. He would also invite me into the living room so that I could watch the Polish TV and improve my language and then spend half the television show prodding me and getting me to speak to him in very fast polish.
   他还会邀请到他的房间看波兰电视来帮助提升我的语言能力，鼓励我和他用波兰语快速地交谈。
8. You keep prodding me to work all the time.
   你一直催促我去工作。
9. Poking and prodding. I learned from the best.
   刺激一下，我从最厉害的人学的。
10. I also have her read celebrated poems, essays and novels, prodding her with questions to see if she's understood what she's read.
    我还让她读著名诗篇、散文和小说，并提出问题来看她是否读懂了。
11. Reinforce harmonious culture construction will necessarily bring great impetus for prodding coordinative development in economy and society of Qinghai province.
    加强和谐文化建设，对促进青海省经济社会协调发展必将产生巨大的驱动力。
12. BYD's effort is a big test of how quickly a country like China can bring into the mainstream a costly new automotive propulsion technology by prodding the private sector and the consumer.
    这无疑是项重大考验：像中国这样的国家，通过鼓励私营企业和消费者，能多快地将一项昂贵的新汽车动力技术带入主流社会？
13. I have more trouble prodding myself to make the effort to buy things I actually need.
    我的问题在于如何说服自己去买该买的东西。
14. This prodding may be needed for several reasons.
    这一敦促可能需要数种理由。
15. Flow is a natural state, and people will enter it without much prodding.
    流是一种自然状态，用户进入状态而不需要刺激。
16. He stood a moment irresolutely prodding the muck in the ditch.
    他犹豫不决地站了一会儿，用手杖扒拉一阵沟里的脏东西。
17. Stop these boys prodding their sticks at that poor dog!
    孩子们不要用棍子戳那条可怜的狗！
18. At the prodding of his neighbour, he talked up for a few second, and then lapsed to a whisper again.
    在邻座的人戳了他一下后，他放大声音讲了几秒钟，然后又回复到耳语般的声音。
19. How much will they lose defensively without Van Gundy prodding them?
    没有范甘迪来盯着他们，防守的强度将降低多少？
20. The horrors of two world wars, the common threat from the Soviet Union and the prodding of the US gave an irresistible logic to what the founding fathers called the process of European construction.
    两次世界大战带来的恐惧、共同面对来自苏联的威胁，加上美国的刺激，为创始人所称的欧洲一体化进程赋予了一种不可抗拒的合理性。
21. They clearly thought he needed prodding on the desirability of relaxing tensions.
    他们显然认为，他需要力陈一下缓和紧张局势的好处。
22. Intellectual property right system takes great effect on protecting and prodding scientific technology innovation, and on propelling the contesting mechanisms to be efficiently working.
    摘要知识产权制度在保护和推进科技创新、促进竞争机制有效运行方面发挥着重要作用。
23. On beaches where crabs and sea anemones outnumber swimmers, environmentalists have a gentle reminder: No poking, prodding or removing the creatures from their natural setting.
    在螃蟹和海葵比游泳者还多的沙滩上，环保主义者发出温和的提示：不要捅、戳这些生物，也不要把它们搬离原来的地方。
24. Arachnophobic officials have been carefully prodding seats on aircraft ever since.
    这位患了蜘蛛恐惧症的官员后来坐飞机都要仔细检查座椅。
25. Only by prodding it down the path of reform is there any prospect of change without catastrophe.
    只有促使它走上改革之路，才有蜕变而不引发灾难的希望。
26. It took me years of prodding, but I've finally managed to turn myself into a dedicated exerciser.
    这花了我数年的动员时间，但是最终成功地把自己变成了一位认真的锻炼者。
27. And I know that I never could have figured out how to express what was in me without these talented Chinese musicians prodding me.
    我知道，如果没有身边这些中国乐手的不断支持，我永远也无法找到表达自己内心世界的方法。
28. Mrs Clinton took more prodding to say the same of her fellow Democrat.
    希拉里犹豫没有并没有说，但是可以确定的是在承认小奥比老麦前，说了很多很酸的话。
29. The girl in the market was prodding at the fruit to see if it was ripe.
    那位姑娘在市场里用手戳水果，看看熟了没有。

noun

1. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
   1. the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves

   Synonym:    goadgoadingprodurgingspurspurring