She gave me a gentle nudge in the ribs to tell me to shut up.

她用胳膊肘捅了一下我的腰，让我住口。

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The new plans are a nudge in the right direction.

新计划则是正确方向上的一种推力。

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One thing he found was that humans didn't necessarily have to kill these animals in great numbers in order to nudge them toward extinction.

据他发现，人类不必大量捕杀这些动物，就可以使它们走向灭绝。

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There's a guy in about the fifth row there who's missed too much sleep, so somebody just nudge him. That's it, good.

第五排有一个同学,可能很缺乏睡眠吧,旁边的人把他叫醒吧

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Exposure to the things that participate in the forms may nudge our minds or our souls in such a way that at that point.

接触到一些有关形式的问题,使我们的思想或者灵魂,在某一点开始考虑这个问题。

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There is really no great burden posed on individuals, only a little nudge in the right direction.

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Fleck took the penalty he won after a nudge in the back by Mihael Kovacevic as the forward thrust into the United box after 78 minutes.

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The gentle nudge in price pressures reported today might not stop another rate rise at the ECB but investors have already built sufficient into the yield curve.

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