Stimulant
['stɪmjʊl(ə)nt] or ['stɪmjələnt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process.
(adj.) that stimulates; 'stimulant phenomena' .
整理:莉莲--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Serving to stimulate.
(a.) Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.
(n.) That which stimulates, provokes, or excites.
(n.) An agent which produces a temporary increase of vital activity in the organism, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a stimulant.
巴尔托迪編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Stimulating, exciting, stimulative.
n. [1]. Stimulating medicine.[2]. Incentive, STIMULUS.
杰德手打
解釋/意思:
adj. stimulating: increasing or exciting vital action.—n. anything that stimulates or excites: a stimulating medicine that increases the activity of the vital functions generally or of one system or organ.—v.t. Stim′ulāte to prick with anything sharp: to incite: to instigate: (physiol.) to produce increased action in.—n. Stimulā′tion act of stimulating or condition of being stimulated.—adj. Stim′ulātive tending to stimulate.—n. that which stimulates or excites.—ns. Stim′ulātor one who stimulates:—fem. Stim′ulātress; Stim′ulism the practice of treating diseases by stimulation; Stim′ūlus a goad: anything that rouses the mind or that excites to action: a stimulant:—pl. Stim′ulī.
錄入:佩内洛普
例句/造句/用法:
- The stimulant influence of the opium had got him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I said, 'You positively refuse to try the stimulant treatment? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The stimulant is Lammle's voice. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- By great good fortune Twemlow receives a stimulant at this critical instant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She had to draw upon this thought, as upon some fiery stimulant, to keep up her part in the scene toward which Rosedale was too frankly tending. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- In other words, I provided the necessary stimulant for strengthening Anne Catherick to perform the journey to London. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Then to me, We will take a little stimulant. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There really WAS a certain stimulant in self-destruction, for him--especially when it was translated spiritually. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish and horror, finds in the very terror of his doom a strong stimulant and tonic. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I'm going to write to my father, and I must have a stimulant, or I shan't be able to pitch it strong enough into the old boy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Later, as the sedative action began to gain on the stimulant action, you would slowly become inert and stupefied. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Tell us what you can, but stop when you are tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The stimulant changed into an opiate. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When the other stimulants lost their influence, I doubled the dose. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Substances of the latter class are known as narcotics and stimulants. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I always required the stimulants of companionship and applause. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The sun was high in the sky, when she gently disengaged herself to give him the stimulants and nourishment he required. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- That was what I meant when I spoke of stimulants to the intellect; I was thinking of the contradictions which arise in perception. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
校對:普拉特