Pinyin: cuī English Definition: to urge; to press; to prompt; to rush sb; to hasten sth; to expedite Chinese Definition: ①使赶快行动：催促。催办。催讨。 ②使事物的产生、发展变化加快：催化。催生。催眠。催奶。催肥。
My kids, for example, can make themselves breakfast, shower and dress themselves, brush their teeth, and generally get themselves ready in the morning with only minimal prompting from us.
My students—who can spot a pathetic argument on this stuff a mile away—almost always confess that this way of understanding relationships is consonant with their experience.
Even today, many find it hard to keep people of that generation on a long-distance call for very long—they still hear a meter ticking in their head and rush to finish.
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