Impetus

(n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

(n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.

(n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.

整理:梅

• He lent it fruitful direction, a different impetus, and the results are beyond his imagining. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Kingship received an impetus from the Persian and Greek invasions of the Punjab. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They forged the direct primary and the State University out of the impetus within themselves. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society--toward cosmopolitanism. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This art received its greatest impetus, however, under Wright’s British patent No. 4,955, of 1824. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• With what pungent vivacities--what an impetus of mutiny--what a fougue of injustice! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I felt veneration for St. John--veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• His body, borne by the impetus of his headlong rush, plunged upon me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• In addition to scientific discoveries, the manufacture of glass in England received a great impetus by the removal of onerous excise duties which had been imposed on its manufacture. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In the first place, it involves loss of impetus. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Now this concentration must represent a profound impetus in the business world--an impetus which certainly cannot be obliterated, even if anyone were foolish enough to wish it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Osborne patented in Australia, and in 1861 in the United States, a transfer process which gave such great impetus to the art that he may be considered its founder and chief promotor. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• About the middle of the Nineteenth Century a great impetus was given to the development of artillery by the Crimean War, followed by the Civil War of the United States. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The religious and political turmoils in Germany in the sixteenth century gave an immense impetus to printing there. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was not failing now for want of impetus, but for want of finished ideas. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He lent it fruitful direction, a different impetus, and the results are beyond his imagining. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Kingship received an impetus from the Persian and Greek invasions of the Punjab. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They forged the direct primary and the State University out of the impetus within themselves. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society--toward cosmopolitanism. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This art received its greatest impetus, however, under Wright’s British patent No. 4,955, of 1824. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• With what pungent vivacities--what an impetus of mutiny--what a fougue of injustice! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I felt veneration for St. John--veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• His body, borne by the impetus of his headlong rush, plunged upon me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• In addition to scientific discoveries, the manufacture of glass in England received a great impetus by the removal of onerous excise duties which had been imposed on its manufacture. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In the first place, it involves loss of impetus. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Now this concentration must represent a profound impetus in the business world--an impetus which certainly cannot be obliterated, even if anyone were foolish enough to wish it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Osborne patented in Australia, and in 1861 in the United States, a transfer process which gave such great impetus to the art that he may be considered its founder and chief promotor. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• About the middle of the Nineteenth Century a great impetus was given to the development of artillery by the Crimean War, followed by the Civil War of the United States. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The religious and political turmoils in Germany in the sixteenth century gave an immense impetus to printing there. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was not failing now for want of impetus, but for want of finished ideas. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

整理:桑娅