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Перевод: spur

[существительное]
шпора ; стимул ; подъездная ветка; побуждение; отросток ; петушиная шпора; отрог горы; уступ ; уступ горы; вершина горы; ответвление жилы; спорынья [бот.] ;
[глагол]
пришпоривать; побуждать; подстрекать; снабжать шпорами; спешить; мчаться

Тезаурус:

1. The world of the imagination is limitless and it is here that the mind must be freed, but it must also be given the spur of inspiration.
2. Thus, the so-called midlife crisis, which can strike men and women as young as 35 or 40, is often the spur to infidelity.
3. Taxes on raw materials intended to spur recycling resisted.
4. These are the whip, spur, and martingale.
5. LIKE THE EARLY MONKS ON THE SCEILIG ROCK, MICHAEL VINEY FINDS HIS CREATIVE SPUR ON THE IRISH EDGE OF THE ATLANTIC
6. For those of you who invite people round for drinks on the spur of the moment, it is a very good idea to visit your local "deli" and purchase a few packets of ready cooked canap cups and miniature tartlet cases.
7. Until the launch of the so-called "minor tranquillisers" in the early Sixties, anxiety was seen as an inevitable everyday experience, and, moreover, as a valuable psychological spur compelling us to take stock of things if they went wrong.
8. Bevan was the spur to Priestley's powerful pen: "The sight of a naked minister might bring the conference to some sense of our human situation, "he wrote, "What should be abandoned is deterrence-by-threat-of-retaliation.
9. The other is to take a spur from the socket outlet circuit, via a switched fused connection unit, fitted with a 3amp fuse, and use this to feed the light - the switch will then turn the light on and off.
10. For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work, or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop.
11. Buy a spur of suitable length, allowing for at least 2ft. into the ground
12. These may be plain or, if the post can be cut, a stepped spur is available upon which the post can rest.
13. This was one of the reasons why they were more prepared than many sedentary peasants to escape over huge distances in the Famine, though of course hunger was the main spur.