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单词 impetus
释义
impetus
(ɪmpɪtəs )
Word forms: impetuses
variable noun
Something that gives a process impetus or an impetus makes it happen or progress more quickly.
This decision will give renewed impetus to the economic regeneration of east London.
She was restless and needed a new impetus for her talent.
Synonyms: incentive, push, spur, motivation  
Collocations:
fresh impetus
He has given us a fresh impetus.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It may take further positive news to provide fresh impetus.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They were married in the abbey and his wife added fresh impetus to his ministry.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
initial impetus
However, this initial impetus slows up a bit.
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Nor were the cannonball to be positively hurled downwards, and thus with a downward initial impetus, could it possibly result in an oscillatory motion.
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These incentives, which were discontinued in the 1970s, gave the initial impetus for the application of the hierarchical pattern.
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Two hills and two streams lie on the east and west expanses of the city; perhaps providing the initial impetus for settling this area.
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The initial impetus was to have a description of the properties of the domain of definition of the (maximal) analytic continuation of an analytic function.
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main impetus
The main impetus for the resurgence has come from a change in attitude among those leading clubs who had begun to take the competition lightly.
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The main impetus came from the others.
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Off-plan sales of investment properties, it says, have been the main impetus for the creation of high-density blocks of flats in many city centres.
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The main impetus for merger was the growing failure of many strikes.
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The main impetus behind regional developments, they write, was the local actors...
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major impetus
Humanistic psychology also had major impetus from existentialist psychology and shares many of the fundamental tenets.
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The major impetus for this was the patenting of the world's first lawnmower in 1830.
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This has been the major impetus to develop either a fire-and-forget version of the system or to develop a successor with this ability.
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This, and construction of privately financed roads, were the major impetus to settlement.
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The canal and locks proved to be a major impetus to colonization and commerce.
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necessary impetus
The belief has been that, if the company slackens off investment and puts the cash into the dividend, this could provide the necessary impetus.
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This was his eighth in nine matches and his 77 provided a necessary impetus, given the rain and bad light of the past two days.
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None of the other categories of spending are going to deliver the necessary impetus.
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new impetus
This was a pity as she would have brought much academic prestige to the post and given a new impetus to Japanese studies in Britain.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We have given a new impetus to our ability to make France shine in the world.
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His horrible system might have been given a new impetus.
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provide the impetus
The insistent organizing of veterans also provided the impetus for systematic psychiatric research.
Herman, Judith Lewis Trauma and Recovery (1992)
The research provided the impetus for a conservation programme.
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This will provide the impetus for further strong growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It can provide the impetus for change and give us the motivation and insight into things that are bothering us so that we can take action.
Westcott, Patsy Alternative Health Care for Women (1991)
renewed impetus
The coalition gave this renewed impetus.
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Above all a renewed impetus to international collaboration is required.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The renewed impetus is already yielding results.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Translations:
Chinese: 推动力
Japanese: 衝動
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