urging
促す
解説 Definition
urging は urge（強く促す、勧める）の現在分詞・動名詞です。相手に行動するよう強く求めたり、説得したりしている状況で使います。
Urging is the present participle and gerund of urge, meaning strongly encouraging, advising, or pressing someone to take a particular action, often because the action is considered important or necessary.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
urge「強く促す」に -ing をそのまま付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、語末 e は落として urging となります。urge someone to do「人に〜するよう強く促す」が基本形。単なる suggest「提案する」より圧力や切迫感があり、先生・医師・行政が必要な行動を強く勧める場面で覚えます。
Begin with urge, meaning to push someone strongly toward an action. Before -ing, the final silent e is dropped, producing urging. The key pattern is urge someone to do something: a teacher may be urging students to read, or officials may be urging people to save water. Imagine words giving someone a firm push forward. Urging is stronger and more insistent than merely suggesting; it often signals that the speaker considers the action important, necessary, or urgent, although it does not necessarily mean giving an order.
例文
The teacher is urging the students to read more.
先生は生徒たちにもっと読むよう促しています。
They are urging people to save water.
彼らは人々に節水するよう呼びかけています。
The doctor kept urging him to rest after the operation.
医師は手術後に休むよう、彼に何度も促しました。
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urging の語源・成り立ち Etymology
urging は urge の現在分詞で、語源はラテン語 urgere「押す・駆り立てる」です。-ing は動作の進行を添え、「背中を押して前へ進ませる」感覚がそのまま「促す」になり、urgent も同じ根です。
Urging is the participial or gerund form of urge, created by dropping the final e and adding -ing. Urge entered English through French from Latin urgēre, meaning to press, drive, or push. The physical idea of pressure developed into the figurative sense of pressing someone through advice or persuasion. Urgent is historically related and retains the idea of something demanding immediate attention.
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