英语词汇“stoke”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

stoke

/stəʊk

verb [with object]

1Add coal or other solid fuel to (a fire, furnace, boiler, etc.): he stoked up the barbecue...

On washdays, the tub was filled with cold water using buckets, and a wood or coal fire was stoked up.
The furnaces that fed them fizzled out long ago, the coal that stoked the fires lies unexcavated in flooded mines.
Leaning over, she took hold of an iron stick and with it poked at the fire, stoking the dying flames.

Synonyms

add fuel to, mend, keep burning, tend, fuel

1.1Encourage or incite (a strong emotion or tendency): his composure had the effect of stoking her anger the Chancellor was stoking up a consumer boom...

Unanswered, its effect is to stoke resentment and encourage conflict.
Exactly 100 years ago this week, Wales was in the midst of a fervent religious revival led by a young Methodist, stoking fanatical excitement and emotional excesses.
These ads are geared to stoke voter emotions and fears to hammer a candidate on a controversial issue.

1.2 [no object] informal Consume a large quantity of food or drink to give one energy: Carol was at the coffee machine, stoking up for the day...

It is a big, brash, gutsy engine, stoking up a lot of energy for seemingly little effort, and it is just perfect for a big, brash, gutsy car.
The following morning, after stoking up well for the day with a self-service full English breakfast, we headed for Our Dynamic Earth, a £34 million project built on three levels.
Parents trying to feed their nestlings can keep their own bellies filled by stoking up at our suet and seed feeders, but as for their young… we don't know.

Origin

Mid 17th century: back-formation from stoker.

单词	stoke
释义	stoke /stəʊk / verb [with object] 1Add coal or other solid fuel to (a fire, furnace, boiler, etc.): he stoked up* the barbecue... On washdays, the tub was filled with cold water using buckets, and a wood or coal fire was stoked up. The furnaces that fed them fizzled out long ago, the coal that stoked the fires lies unexcavated in flooded mines. Leaning over, she took hold of an iron stick and with it poked at the fire, stoking the dying flames. Synonyms add fuel to, mend, keep burning, tend, fuel 1.1Encourage or incite (a strong emotion or tendency): his composure had the effect of stoking her anger* the Chancellor was stoking up* a consumer boom... Unanswered, its effect is to stoke resentment and encourage conflict. Exactly 100 years ago this week, Wales was in the midst of a fervent religious revival led by a young Methodist, stoking fanatical excitement and emotional excesses. These ads are geared to stoke voter emotions and fears to hammer a candidate on a controversial issue. 1.2 [no object]* informal Consume a large quantity of food or drink to give one energy: Carol was at the coffee machine, stoking up* for the day*... It is a big, brash, gutsy engine, stoking up a lot of energy for seemingly little effort, and it is just perfect for a big, brash, gutsy car. The following morning, after stoking up well for the day with a self-service full English breakfast, we headed for Our Dynamic Earth, a £34 million project built on three levels. Parents trying to feed their nestlings can keep their own bellies filled by stoking up at our suet and seed feeders, but as for their young… we don't know. Origin Mid 17th century: back-formation from stoker. Rhymes awoke, bespoke, bloke, broke, choke, cloak, Coke, convoke, croak, evoke, folk, invoke, joke, Koch, moke, oak, okey-doke, poke, provoke, revoke, roque, smoke, soak, soke, spoke, stony-broke (US stone-broke), stroke, toke, toque, woke, yoke, yolk
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