新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

stir

英 [stɜː]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

1. [SING 单数型名词] 轰动 , 愤怒
If an event causes a stir, it causes great excitement, shock, or anger among people.
近义词
commotion
双语例句
例：
His film has caused a stir.
他的电影引起了轰动。

PHRASAL VERB. 短语动词

stir up
1. [PHRASAL 短语] 扬起
If something stirs up dust or stirs up mud in water, it causes it to rise up and move around.
双语例句
例：
They saw first a cloud of dust and then the car that was stirring it up.
他们先看到了扬起的一团尘土，然后才看到了汽车。
2. [PHRASAL 短语] 挑起
If you stir up a particular mood or situation, usually a bad one, you cause it.
双语例句
例：
As usual, Harriet is trying to stir up trouble.
与往常一样，哈里特正在试图挑起事端。

VERB. 动词

stirs , stirring , stirred
1. [T 及物动词] 搅动 , 搅拌
If you stir a liquid or other substance, you move it around or mix it in a container using something such as a spoon.
双语例句
例：
Stir the soup for a few seconds.
把汤搅动几秒钟。
例：
There was Mrs Bellingham, stirring sugar into her tea.
贝林汉姆太太正在那里把糖搅进茶里。
2. [I 不及物动词] 稍稍活动 , 挪动身体
If you stir, you move slightly, for example because you are uncomfortable or beginning to wake up.
近义词
move
双语例句
例：
Eileen shook him, and he started to stir.
艾琳晃了晃他，他开始醒过来。
3. [I 不及物动词] 离开
If you do not stir from a place, you do not move from it.
近义词
move
双语例句
例：
She had not stirred from the house that evening.
她那天晚上没有离开过那座房子。
4. [I 不及物动词] 使轻轻拂动 , 轻轻拂动
If something stirs or if the wind stirs it, it moves gently in the wind.
近义词
move
双语例句
例：
Palm trees stir in the soft Pacific breeze.
棕榈树在太平洋和煦的微风里轻轻摇动。
5. [I 不及物动词] 唤起 , 萌生
If a particular memory, feeling, or mood stirs or is stirred in you, you begin to think about it or feel it.
双语例句
例：
Then a memory stirs in you and you start feeling anxious.
接着一段回忆涌上心头，你开始感到焦虑不安。
例：
Amy remembered the anger he had stirred in her.
艾米记得他曾惹自己生气。