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单词 driving
释义 driving
I. adjective
Etymology: from present participle of drive (I)
1. : acting with vigor : energetic
 < responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive >
2. : prone to urge or goad others (as subordinates or employees) to stepped-up or unreasonable exertion
 < a driving supervisor >
3. : being of such character as to produce or effect and sustain consistently directed, progressive, or constructive action
 < the driving force was not academic training but his innate enthusiasm for constructive and creative work — John Bradford >
 < the driving energy required of an executive >
 < in the 1860s and 1870s the irresistible driving power of the American trek westward — American Guide Series: Texas >
4. : exercising an inescapable pressure or compulsive influence in inciting and stimulating thoughts or actions in mounting sequence : dynamic
 < little by little the pleasure of opiates gives way to the driving necessity to take drugs in order to avoid withdrawal distress — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel >
 < the stirring and driving quality of all truly spiritual leaders who are in the world but not of it — M.R.Cohen >
 < the driving concern of the book to expose actual conditions in the institution >
 < a driving personal ambition >
5. : having a dramatic and suspensive quality stimulative to readers or hearers
 < he gives us a quick and driving narrative of a tired and indomitable and angry man — Saturday Review >
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: from gerund of drive (I)
: management of an automobile or other vehicle on the road
 < clever at driving in heavy traffic >
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