fillip
fillip 英 [ˈfɪlɪp] 美 [ˈfɪləp]
n. 刺激；弹指 vt. 用指弹 vi. 弹指
名词复数:fillips
- A fillip is something that boosts, promotes, or energizes. Giving away one free candy bar with every dozen purchased might give a fillip to your candy-selling business.
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- n. 刺激；弹指
- vt. 用指弹
- vi. 弹指
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1. Replenishing inventory will be a temporary fillip without an increase in consumer demand.
在消费需求未增加的情况下，补充存货只能是临时刺激。
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2. It will not only help us in looking at their positive light, but also act as a positive vibe giving them ample fillip to look at our efforts more positively.
它不仅有助于我们审视他们的正面，而且还作为一个积极的共鸣给予他们足够的刺激来看到我们更积极的努力。
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3. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the urchin administered to it a fillip.
他跟死亡玩着骇人的捉迷藏游戏。 每一次当索命的鬼魂来到他跟前时，这顽皮的孩子总是“啪”的一下给它来个弹指。
- fillip (v.) mid-15c., philippen "to flip something with the fingers, snap the fingers," possibly of imitative origin. As a noun, from 1520s, fyllippe.
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