stir

1. V-T If you stir a liquid or other substance, you move it around or mix it in a container using something such as a spoon. 攪動; 攪拌

Stir the soup for a few seconds. 把湯攪動幾秒鐘。

There was Mrs. Bellingham, stirring sugar into her tea. 貝林漢姆太太在那兒把糖加入茶中攪拌。

2. V-I If you stir, you move slightly, for example because you are uncomfortable or beginning to wake up. 微動[書面]

Eileen shook him, and he started to stir. 艾琳搖了搖他，他開始動了動。

3. V-I If you do not stir from a place, you do not move from it. 離開[書面] [usu with brd-neg]

She had not stirred from the house that evening. 她那天晚上沒有離開過那座房子。

4. V-T/V-I If something stirs or if the wind stirs it, it moves gently in the wind. 使輕輕拂動; 輕輕拂動[書面]

Palm trees stir in the soft Pacific breeze. 棕櫚樹在太平洋和煦的微風里輕輕搖動。

5. V-T/V-I If a particular memory, feeling, or mood stirs or is stirred in you, you begin to think about it or feel it. 喚起; 萌生[書面]

Then a memory stirs in you and you start feeling anxious. 接著你腦海中涌現(xiàn)出一段回憶，并開始感到不安。

Amy remembered the anger he had stirred in her. 艾米記得他曾惹自己生氣。

6. N-SING If an event causes a stir, it causes great excitement, shock, or anger among people. 轟動; 憤怒

His movie has caused a stir. 他的電影引起了轟動。

7. N the act or an instance of stirring or the state of being stirred 攪動; 撥動

8. →see also stirring