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| Processed by: | richwarm (2022-07-01 12:48:59 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 71030 - submitted by 'sykul' >> The definitions and examples I've found only talk about the physical force sense of 'impulse', but in English 'impulse' has additional meanings similar to 'urge', so perhaps it's best to disambiguate. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A1%9D%E5%8A%9B#Chinese https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%86%B2%E5%8A%9B/9981457 https://cidian.qianp.com/ci/%E5%86%B2%E5%8A%9B http://www.ichacha.net/%E5%86%B2%E5%8A%9B.html https://context.reverso.net/translation/chinese-english/%E5%86%B2%E5%8A%9B https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%86%B2%E5%8A%9B/9981457 ------------------------------ Editor: You say you only found examples that "talk about the physical force sense of 'impulse'", yet your ichacha reference includes this: "Do you ever have any actual suicidal impulses?" 你有任何实际的自杀冲力吗？ Well, I think that's just a bad Chinese translation of something originally written in English. "(physics) impulse" is defined as "the product obtained by multiplying the average value of a force by the time during which it acts". [American Heritage Dictionary]. In Chinese, that's 冲量, not 冲力. https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E5%86%B2%E9%87%8F While 冲力 doesn't mean "impulse" in the sense of "sudden wish or urge", it *is* used figuratively, but the meaning is more like "momentum". Here are three examples of figurative usage of 衝力 (冲力): 我們的生活似乎在代替我們過日子，生活本身具有的奇異衝力，把我們帶得暈頭轉向；到最後，我們會感覺對生命一點選擇也沒有，絲毫無法作主。 "Our lives seem to live us, to possess their own bizarre momentum, to carry us away; in the end we feel we have no choice or control over them." 「如果聲音有表情，那麼黃妃肯定是嘴角上揚的微笑甘甜，隨時續勢待發的聲音衝力，詮釋台語歌曲有種意想不到的家鄉味，親切可人的地方語音又有嬌滴滴的靚女魅力。」這是樂評人對黃妃的聲音評價。 《遠東經濟評論》在一項亞洲國家生活方式調查中，一針見血地點出現階段的問題：亞洲國家衝力十足的經濟成長，創造了新富階層，但也帶來問題。她們能否放慢引擎，休養療傷，找到長程與短程利益間的平衡點？ |
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- 衝力 冲力 [chong1 li4] /impulse/ # + 衝力 冲力 [chong1 li4] /(physics) impulse/ + 衝力 冲力 [chong1 li4] /momentum (the force exhibited by a moving body)/(fig.) momentum (capacity for progressive development)/ + 衝量 冲量 [chong1 liang4] /(physics) impulse/ |