arouse
英[ə'raʊz]美[ə'raʊz]
- vt. 引起；唤醒；鼓励
- vi. 激发；醒来；发奋
词态变化
第三人称单数: arouses;过去式: aroused;过去分词: aroused;现在分词: arousing;名词: arousal;
中文词源
arouse 唤醒
古英语前缀a-, 来自PIE*uz, 向上，向外，词源同out. 单词rouse, 唤醒。
英文词源
- arouse
- arouse: [16] Shakespeare is the first writer on record to use arouse, in 2 Henry VI, 1593: ‘Loud howling wolves arouse the jades that drag the tragic melancholy night’. It was formed, with the intensive prefix a-, from rouse, a word of unknown origin which was first used in English in the 15th century as a technical term in falconry, meaning ‘plump up the feathers’.
=> rouse - arouse (v.)
- 1590s, "awaken" (transitive), from a- (1) "on" + rouse. Related: Aroused; arousing.
双语例句
- 1. There is nothing like a long walk to arouse the appetite.
- 没有什么比走很长的路更能激起食欲的了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Their persecution only serves to arouse the opposition of the people.
- 他们的迫害只激起人民对他们的反抗.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. We must arouse them to fight for their own emancipation.
- 我们必须唤起他们为其自身的解放而斗争.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. We must arouse them to fight with enemies.
- 我们必须唤起他们同敌人斗争.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. Silly mistakes and queer clothes often arouse ridicule.
- 荒谬的错误和古怪的服装常会引起人们的讪笑.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》