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stirn. 1. motion,action,effort,initiative 動作,行動,努力,主動。 △ Mac.1.3.143: “If chance will have me king,why,chance may crown me,/ Without my stir.” i.e.If Fate says I am to be king,I certainly shall be,whether or not I take any action to that end.要是機(jī)緣將會使我成為國王,那么機(jī)緣自會為我加上王冠,用不著我自己費(fèi)力。 2. commotion,uproar 騷動,擾亂。 △1H.VI.1.4.98:“What stir is this? What tumult’s in the heavens?”這是什么騷動? 天上起了什么喧鬧?
stirvt. 1.move,cause to change place 移動,使改變位置。 △H.VIII.5.4.17(5.3.16): “We may as well push a-gainst Paul’s as stir ’em.”要想挪動他們,就像推動圣保羅大教堂一樣難。 2. prompt,arouse,awaken 促使,激起,喚醒。 △H.VIII.3.2.418 (417): “Some little memory of me will stirhim,/ I know his noble nature,not to let / Thy hope-ful service perish too.”我了解他的高貴天性,只要他對我還有一點(diǎn)念舊,就會提醒他不讓你的效勞和希望跟我一起毀掉。 3. stir up,provoke,incite,instigate 煽動,挑撥,激勵,教唆。 △As.1.1.172(163): “Now will I stir this game-ster.”現(xiàn)在我要去挑撥這個好斗逞強(qiáng)的小伙子了。 △Lr.2.4.277 (274): “If it be you that stirs these daughters’hearts / Against their father,”如果是你們鼓動這兩個女兒跟她們的父親作對。 △R.III.1.3.330(329): “And tellthem ’tis the Queen and her allies / That stir the Kingagainst the Duke my brother.”我告訴他們是王后及其同伙唆使國王對付我的公爵哥哥的。 ~ vi. 1.move 移動,動身。 △Oth.3.1.30(28): “If she willstir hither,I shall seem to notify unto her.” (“Seem”is used to make fun of Cassio’s polite speech.) 倘若她愿出來,小的自當(dāng)通報。 △2H.VI.2.4.18:“No,stir not foryour lives.Let her pass by.”不,你們要活就別動。讓她走過去吧。 △3H.VI.5.1.96:“As I will meet thee if thoustir abroad,”只要你到城外活動,我就會跟你遭遇。 2. begin to move,go forth 走動,走開。 △ Com.5.1.167:“I will determine this before I stir.”我要把這件事問明白了再走。 3. be active,be up and about,be busy 活動,動起來,忙碌。 △Wiv.5.5.204(186): “If I did not think it hadbeen Anne Page,would I might never stir!”如果我沒有把他當(dāng)做了安·裴琪,我才不費(fèi)這個事! △Ham.1.5.34:“Wouldst thou not stir in this.”你如果對這件事情還無動于衷。 △Ham.4.4.53:“Rightly to be great / Is not tostir without great argument,”真正的偉大并不是沒有什么大事情就輕舉妄動。 △1H.IV.2.3.86(81): “I fear mybrother Mortimer doth stir /About his title,”我擔(dān)心我的兄弟摩提麥又在為他的王位權(quán)利而活動。 △1H.IV. 3.2.46:“By being seldom seen,I could not stir / But like acomet I was wondered at,”正因?yàn)楹苌俪鲱^露面,我才能一有活動就像彗星一樣使人感到驚奇。 4. be excited 激動。 △1H.IV.1.3.2:“Unapt to stir atthese indignities.”對于這些侮辱不輕易激動。 △2H.VI.2.4.49:“Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death /Hang over thee,as sure it shortly will.”發(fā)生了任何事也都不要激動,直到斬人斧落到你頭上的時候,因?yàn)樗隙ê芸炀鸵涞侥泐^上了。 5. boil,be excited沸騰,激動。 △1H.IV.1.3.197:“O.the blood more stirs / To rouse a lion than to start ahare.”驚動一頭獅子比驚起一只野兔更使人熱血沸騰。 6. take action采取行動。 △H.VIII.5.3.39(5.2.74):“A man that more detests,more stirs against(i.e.ismore active against). / Both in his private conscienceand his place,/ Defacers of a public peace than I do.”一個人,無論在個人良心上還是在任職工作中,會比我更憎惡、更積極反對那些破壞社會治安的人。 7. be out of bed in the morning早晨起來。 △Oth.3.1.26(24):“If the gentlewoman that attends the general'swife be stirring,tell her there’s one Cassio entreatsher a little favour of speech.”要是侍候?qū)④姺蛉说哪俏慌科饋砹?,請告訴她有一個叫凱西奧的人求她出來說句話。 △R.III.3.2.36: “Good morrow,Catesby,you areearly stirring.”早安,凱茨比,你起得早啊。 Phrases: stir about: move about,keep busy奔走,張羅。 △Rom.4.2.40(39):“I will stir about,”我來張羅。 stir on: encourage,incite,instigate鼓勵,激勵,唆使。 △Tw.3.2.65(58): “and by all means stir on the youth to an answer.” i.e. encourage the youth to re-ply. 并且我還要設(shè)法慫恿那年輕人回答。 stir up: ?excite,raise激起,引起。 △3H.VI.5.5.63:“You have no children,butchers: if you had,/ Thethought of them would have stirred up remorse.”你們沒有子女,屠夫們;如果你們有子女,想起他們該會喚起你們一點(diǎn)憐憫之心。 ?incite,instigate激勵,煽動。 △3H.VI.4.8.11: “and thou,son Clarence,/ Shalt stir up in Suf>folk,Norfolk,and in Kent / The knights and gentlemen to come with thee.”你,賢婿克拉侖斯,要到薩??恕⒅Z福克和肯特去激勵那里的騎士豪紳隨你到這里來。 stir[st?:]v.攪拌,激起 n.騷動,轟動 ◇ stir out of the house外出 stir sb.’s feelings觸動 stir sugar into coffee把糖攪拌在咖啡里 stir up策動 stir up hatred挑起仇恨 stir up sb.’s to mischief煽動某人胡鬧 stir up the dust揚(yáng)起灰塵 |