| 单词 | stir |
| 释义 | stir I. transitive verb 1. a. < a faint smile stirred her lips — Kathleen Freeman > < tied so tightly he could scarcely stir a finger > < the great warships easing slowly through the gates of the bay … and stirring the yachts at anchor — John Durant > b. < little boats that barely stir its mysterious black waters — Selby Paul > < coons, coyotes, and owls stirred the silence here and there — John Muir †1914 > 2. a. (1) < stir the batter until the dry ingredients are blended > < puts sugar in his tea and stirs it > < stirs his pail of paint with a paddle > (2) < careful to stir the ingredients well > < by stirring together a mass of … facts and superstitions, he arrived at a hierarchy of races — Martin Gardner > — often used with in or into < stir in the flour gradually to avoid lumping > < stir the beaten eggs into the milk > b. < stir the fire with the poker to make it burn again > < stir the topsoil > — often used with up < the cows would wade into the pool and stir up … the mud on the bottom — Vicki Baum > 3. < the wife would … stir herself to sweep the floor — Pearl Buck > 4. < stir not questions of jurisdiction — Francis Bacon > 5. a. < an instinct stirs her to feed the older grubs — Weston La Barre > : incite, inflame < heroism that stirs orators to eloquence > < the increase of illiteracy in children … has stirred the conscience of the British public — Britain Today > < able, as a public speaker, to stir people … to the point of tears — Stewart Cockburn > : quicken < peace has no drums and trumpets to stir the pulse — Amy Loveman > — often used with up < she stirred up her father to proclaim a campaign against the whites — Negley Farson > b. < men lacking an arm or leg stirred universal pity — Dixon Wecter > < this Vermont watering trough … will stir nostalgic memories — J.H.East > : provoke < the inquiry has stirred a hot controversy — New York Times > — often used with up < abolitionists encouraged agitators to come South and stir up discontent — Helen B. Woodward > intransitive verb 1. a. < a light breeze was stirring in the lime trees — T.B.Costain > : change one's position slightly < a bed that squeaks if he so much as stirs > : begin to move (as in rousing) < girl on the floor stirred, moaned and sat up — Louis Bromfield > b. < so intent on this fantastic … narrative that she had hardly stirred — Walter de la Mare > < it was very wet all day and I didn't stir out of the house — Lennox Robinson > 2. < already, although it was still dark, the life of the farm was stirring — Ellen Glasgow > < profound forces were stirring into a vigorous life that was soon to transform the culture of Europe — I.M.Price > 3. a. < in the barn back of the house she could hear the cattle stirring about — Sherwood Anderson > also < up and gone before the others were stirring > b. < seemed to be forever busy about something, stirring around in the midst of tumult and struggle — W.A.White > : exert oneself < the friends of the unfortunate exile … were stirring anxiously in his behalf — Charles Merivale > : be in a state of excitement < the discontents that had been stirring in him for at least fifteen years — Carl Van Doren > 4. < talk freely on everything that stirs — Isaac Watts > 5. < asked to lick the spoon she was stirring with > 6. < add water till the mixture stirs easily > Synonyms: < obstacles only stirred the friars to greater efforts — R.A.Billington > < some of them stir the imagination and call forth emotions — Douglas Carruthers > < the present Diana had wakened his curiosity, had stirred his interest in her — George Meredith > < movements that begin by stirring up hostility against a group of people — John Dewey > < matters that stir heated controversy — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > rouse, arouse, awaken, and waken all presuppose a state of repose, often sleep or a dormant condition. rouse suggests a suddenness in stirring to activity, especially wakefulness, often applying to incitement by startling, frightening, or upsetting and sometimes suggesting ensuing turbulence < roused out of sleep by a heavy pounding on the door — Joseph Wechsberg > < when he was roused he spoke with eloquence — R.M.Lovett > < the sight of the brisk flames roused the rioters — T.B.Costain > < poetry roused in her a clumsy and conventional enthusiasm — Virginia Woolf > < a rousing fight > arouse is weaker in implication than rouse, often suggesting no more than to start into activity < the fact aroused no curiosity — John Dewey > < busy arousing the public to the danger — W.G.Carleton > < aroused sleeping memories — R.L.Cook > < have sought to arouse prejudice and fear — F.D.Roosevelt > awaken and waken, implying an ending of sleep, apply chiefly to the stirring to activity of mental or spiritual powers < their assertion that you awakened them to think — Irwin Edman > < awaken the curiosity of the future scientist — J.B.Conant > < awaken the spirit of good will — V.L.Parrington > < employ their talents or waken the deepest interest in their lives — Thomas Wolfe > < wakened his latent powers of literary expression — C.A.Madison > rally implies a gathering together of diffused or disorganized forces that stirs up or rouses, especially to positive organized activity < his smiling face rallied his friends — Claud Cockburn > < necessary to rally all the forces in the country in the name of freedom against a foreign foe — John Dewey > < the prisoner made an effort to rally his attention — Charles Dickens > II. 1. a. < the entrance of the judge and a consequent great stir … stopped the dialogue — Charles Dickens > : restlessness < an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles — John Galsworthy > : flurry < these visits brought a considerable stir of … business in the provinces — R.W.Southern > b. < an exposé that created a considerable stir in the press > : impression < an obscure family that had till then made little stir in the world > 2. < with every stir of wind and wheel, the dust blows in choking brown clouds — Marjory S. Douglas > < everywhere there was a faint and genial stir of spring in the air — Susan Ertz > 3. < give the embers a stir > Synonyms: < a great stir about the manse that morning, and the boys were dressed in their Sunday clothes — William Black > < the announcement created quite a stir in the audience > bustle adds the idea of noisy, obtrusive, often self-important activity < the streets are alive with the hurry and noise of a big city. Then the bustle subsides and relative calm is resumed — American Guide Series: North Carolina > < no such bustle of enthusiasm, no such in-and-out of busy workers — S.H.Adams > flurry puts stress upon sudden, nervous, usually short-lived activity, often suggesting undue haste < a flurry of excitement > < set off a flurry of speculation in the world's oil industry — Time > < a flurry of ground fire exploded at almost the right altitude to catch the photographic plane — J.A.Michener > pother and fuss both imply unnecessary, often confused, activity or agitation, usually over trifles. pother lays stress upon the agitation or confusion < he was not unused to women, but he was unused to a pother of emotion over any one of them — Audrey Barker > < the great hydraulic firms were in a continual pother about the water rights — Julian Dana > fuss usually stresses more the needlessness of the commotion < those events … scarcely warranted the tremendous fuss subsequently made about them — Arnold Bennett > < much fuss is made of the right of the parent to order the life of his child — Times Literary Supplement > ado usually implies fussy activity and waste of energy < everybody seems to know his job and to take over his duties without much ado — Education Digest > < among … speculators there always is considerable ado whenever the stock market drops below its preceding lows — Newsweek > III. Scotland IV. slang < an international jewel thief just out of stir and eager to get back to work — V.P.Hass > V. |
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