Stimulate
['stɪmjʊleɪt] or ['stɪmjə'let]
解释:
(verb.) cause to be alert and energetic; 'Coffee and tea stimulate me'; 'This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate'.
(verb.) act as a stimulant; 'The book stimulated her imagination'; 'This play stimulates'.
(verb.) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; 'These stories shook the community'; 'the civil war shook the country'.
(verb.) stir feelings in; 'stimulate my appetite'; 'excite the audience'; 'stir emotions'.
录入:西德尼--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.
(v. t.) To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.
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同义词及近义词：
v. a. Incite, excite, instigate, animate, awaken, provoke, pique, encourage, inspirit, urge, prompt, goad, rouse, arouse, whet, foment, spur, impel, inflame, fire, kindle, stir up, set on, work up.
手打:雷切尔
例句:
- I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Lavender, which is one part blue and three parts white, would stimulate all three sets of nerves, but with a maximum of stimulation for the blue. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- So kind is his nature, it may stimulate him for once to make the effort. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- And wherever the politician through his prestige or the government through its universities can stimulate a revolution in business motives, it should do so. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It is not enough to teach the horrors of war and to avoid everything which would stimulate international jealousy and animosity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- They were surrounded by creatures ready to stimulate their slightest wishes and to translate their vaguest impulses into action. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In brief, the environment consists of those conditions that promote or hinder, stimulate or inhibit, the characteristic activities of a living being. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Stimulated either by this compliment, or by her burning indignation, that illustrious woman then added, 'Let him meet it if he can! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I stimulated myself into such a heat, and got so out of breath, that I felt as if I had been earning I don't know how much. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The simplicity of the method of generating acetylene gas from this substance by merely bringing it in contact with water has greatly stimulated invention in this field. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The electric furnace, stimulated into higher heat by the dynamo than can be otherwise obtained, has brought about many valuable discoveries, and made great advances in various arts. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The economic revolution has stimulated science by setting problems for solution, by producing greater intellectual respect for mechanical appliances. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The great growth of automobile carriages in the past year has greatly stimulated the output of storage batteries. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Pasteur's interest in these problems of fermentation wa s stimulated by one of the industries of Lille. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- A snowy field stimulates equally all three sets of optic nerves--the red, the green, and the blue. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- A truly general aim broadens the outlook; it stimulates one to take more consequences (connections) into account. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Again the sex stimulates us and rewards us by the condescension of its lovely presence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Light stimulates, nourishes, preserves. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Desires for something different, aversion to the given state of things caused by the blocking of successful activity, stimulates the imagination. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- His father was the kind of man who delights in a charming woman: who quotes her, stimulates her, and keeps her perennially charming. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The educator's part in the enterprise of education is to furnish the environment which stimulates responses and directs the learner's course. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Plato had an immediate influence in stimulating m athematical studies, and has been called a maker of mathematicians. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Wright[61] gives us some very stimulating suggestions here. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He was a fertile and stimulating thinker, and much of his great influence arose from the comprehensiven ess that led to his celebrated classification of the sciences. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Mersenne was a stimulating and indefatigable correspondent. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- As every day brought her stimulating emotion, so every night yielded her recreating rest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Now the stimulating class are the things which suggest contrast and relation. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The invalid sank back upon his cushions, tired out by this long recital, while his nurse poured him out a glass of some stimulating medicine. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
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