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Push French English Pulse Participle Latin Pellere Meaning

正面 696.push
英 [pʊʃ]美 [pʊʃ]

背面
释义:
vt. 推动,增加;对…施加压力,逼迫;按;说服vi. 推进;增加;努力争取n. 推,决心;大规模攻势;矢志的追求
例句:
1. I saw her push the boulder down on you.我看见她将巨石推下砸向你。

1、puls- "drive, push" => push.
push 推,推动,推进来自古法语poulser,推动,推进,来自拉丁语pulsare,击,打,推进,词源同pulse,propel.字母l脱落。
pushpush: [13] Push comes ultimately from the same source as English pulsate and pulse – pulsus, the past participle of Latin pellere ‘drive, push, beat’. From it was formed the verb pulsāre ‘push, beat’, which in Old French became poulser, later pousser. Anglo-Norman took this over as *pusser, and passed it on to English as push.=> pulsate, pulsepush (v.)early 14c., from Old French poulser (Modern French pousser), from Latin pulsare "to beat, strike, push," frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus) "to push, drive, beat" (see pulse (n.1)). Meaning "promote" is from 1714; meaning "approach a certain age" is from 1937. For palatization of -s-, OED compares brush (n.1); quash. Related: Pushed; pushing. "Pushing up the daisies now," said a soldier of his dead comrade. ["The American Florist," vol. XLVIII, No. 1504, March 31, 1917] To push (someone) around is from 1923. To push (one's) luck is from 1754. To push the envelope in figurative sense is late 1980s. To push up daisies "be dead and buried" is from World War I.push (n.)1560s, from push (v.). Phrase push comes to shove is from 1936."

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