Two men blocking the path put the wind up her.

两个人堵住路使她担惊受怕。

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But now he himself, to put the wind up his top managers, has raised the spectre of a takeover.

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"They put the wind up us a bit yesterday by knocking us over so quickly but I was really pleased with the way the boys fought today in pretty hot conditions, " said Australia coach Tim Nielsen.

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He is back on terra firma when he argues that the euro will put a strong wind behind the liberalisation of capital markets and will help set Europe's over-regulated economies free.

ECONOMIST: Yves-Thibault de Silguy, euro-navigator