excite

英 [ɪk'saɪt] 美 [ɪk'saɪt]

• vt. 使兴奋；使激动；刺激；激起

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 使兴奋,使激动

   cause to rouse strong feelings of expectation, happiness

2. vt. 激发,引起

   cause to have a strong feeling

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 刺激，引起，激起，唤起，激发（性欲）
2. 使激动，使兴奋
3. 兴奋，激动
4. 鼓励，激励
5. 煽动
6. 【电】激起（电流）
7. 【摄】使感光
8. 使活动
9. 刺激…的活动
10. 使紧张不安
11. 触动
12. 对适当的刺激物产生或增加（生物体、器官、组织）的反应
13. 使动感情

英英释义

Verb:

1. arouse or elicit a feeling

2. act as a stimulant;

   "The book stimulated her imagination"
   "This play stimulates"
   

3. stir feelings in;

   "stimulate my appetite"
   "excite the audience"
   "stir emotions"
   

4. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused;

   "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
   

5. stimulate sexually;

   "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
   

6. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of;

   "These stories shook the community"
   "the civil war shook the country"
   

7. raise to a higher energy level;

   "excite the atoms"
   

8. produce a magnetic field in;

   "excite the neurons"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. The good news excited everybody.
   这个好消息使每一个人都很兴奋。
2. Nothing seemed to surprise or excite him.
   好像他对什么事情都不惊讶或兴奋似的。
3. Don't excite him. He remembers nothing but his daughter.
   不能让他太激动,他现在只记得跟他女儿有关的事。
4. Strong coffee excites your nerves.
   浓咖啡刺激神经。
5. The rumors excite her curiosity.
   谣言引起了她的好奇心。
6. Your remark excited him to jealousy.
   你的话引起了他的嫉妒。
7. Some people are sexually excited by pornographic magazines.
   有的人看到色情杂志能激发起性欲。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The news excited everybody.
   这则消息使每个人都感到兴奋。
2. This announcement greatly excited us.
   这个通知使我们大为激动。
3. News of the discovery of gold in California excited the nation.
   在加利福尼亚发现金矿的消息令全国人民兴奋不已。
4. They feared that the visitors would excite the patient too much.
   他们担心探视者会使病人过于兴奋。
5. The story excited me so much that I could not sleep.
   这个故事使我兴奋得睡不着觉。
6. Don't excite yourself! Keep calm!
   不要激动!保持镇静!
7. It especially excited their inquisitiveness.
   这尤其引起了他们的好奇心。
8. Strong coffee excites your nerves.
   浓咖啡会令人神经兴奋。
9. Her story excited my pity.
   她的经历激起了我的同情心。
10. His achievement excited her envy.
    他的成就引起了她的羡慕。
11. Her new dress excited envy among the other girls.
    她的新连衣裙引起其他女孩子的羡慕。
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12. He was getting excited just thinking about the trip.
    一想到那次旅行他就兴奋。
13. I was quite excited to hear that.
    听到那事我非常激动。

S+～+ v -ing

1. This excites crying.
   这引起了哭泣声。

用作宾补动词

S+～+ n./pron. +to- v

1. The king's cruelty excited the people to rise against him.
   那个国王的残酷激起了人民起来反对他。

S+～+ n./pron. + prep. -phrase

1. I excited him to anger.
   我把他激怒了。
2. Extremists were exciting the people to rebellion against their oppressors.
   极端主义者在鼓动人民起来反抗压迫者。

经典引文

• He looked like a spirited fellow who could be excited into doing two men's work.

  出自： P. Kavanagh

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

be excited about

由于…而激动〔兴奋〕 stir about

be excited at

由于(想〔听,见〕到…)而激动〔兴奋〕 stir at

be excited by

为…而激动〔兴奋〕 stir by

be excited over

因…而激动 stir over

be excited with

为…而激动〔兴奋〕 stir by

excite in (v.+prep.)

激起(某人的强烈感情等) cause (a strong feeling) to arise in (sb)
excite sth in sb
The handsome young man excited affection in a girl.

那位英俊的年轻男子引起了一个女孩的爱慕之情。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• excite admiration 引起羡慕
• excite attention 引起注意
• excite envy 引起妒忌
• excite interest 引起兴趣
• excite sympathy 引起同情

～+副词

• excite boundlessly 使激动之至
• excite easily 使容易激动
• excite especially 使特别激动
• excite exhaustingly 使非常激动
• excite fiercely 使非常激动
• excite greatly 使非常激动
• excite intensely 使非常激动
• excite painfully 痛苦地激发
• excite strongly 使非常激动
• excite wildly 使兴奋得发狂

～+介词

• be excited about 由于…而激动
• be excited at 由于…而兴奋
• be excited by sb 被某人激怒,为…而兴奋
• excite heat by friction 摩擦生热
• excite in 激起(某人的强烈感情等)
• excite sb to pity 激起某人的同情心

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. excite的基本意思是刺激某人使之激动或激励某人做某事,强调激动的强烈程度和激励的巨大作用。
2. excite用作及物动词时,可接名词、代词或动名词作宾语,也可接以动词不定式或以介词to引导的短语充当补足语的复合宾语。
3. excite常用于be ～ed结构,其后可接现在分词或动词不定式短语,还常接at, about 表示“激动”或“兴奋”的原因。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

excite, cheer, encourage

• 这组词都有“刺激,鼓舞”的意思。其区别是：
• cheer指帮助萎靡不振的人重新焕发精神或勇气去进行最后的奋斗; encourage是指对意志薄弱的人或缺乏经验的人加以“鼓舞,鼓励”等,其宾语后面可接带to的不定式,也可接介词“in＋名词短语”。例如:
• They encourage the children to paint pictures.他们鼓励孩子们画画。
• He encouraged me in my work.他在工作上鼓励我。
• excite指通过刺激某人的感情或情绪使人达到兴奋状态。例如:
• The news of the victory excited everybody very much.听到那胜利的消息,人人兴奋不已。

excite, galvanize, pique, provoke, quicken, stimulate

• 这组词都可表示“激起某人或引发某事”。其区别是：
• provoke强调激发动作或感情的原因; excite除了指激起感情或兴趣等之外,还暗示其原因的性质和动作的强烈或深刻程度; galvanize指用人工方法来激活衰老、僵硬或濒死的人或物; pique指激起好奇心、兴趣等; quicken指激发活力、生气或使生命、感情等复苏,强调其结果是有益的; stimulate专指人或物因外界因素而受到刺激,也指激励人从懒散、心灰意冷中振作起来或对某事物产生兴趣。

下面两句意思相同:

• Her behaviour excited jealousy in Kehr.
• Her behaviour excited Kehr to jealousy.
• 她的行为引起了凯尔的妒忌。

词源解说

• ☆ 14世纪中期进入英语，直接源自中古英语的exciten；最初源自拉丁语的excitare，意为使兴奋，使激动。

近反义词

【近义词】

• cheer
• encourage
• inspire
• stimulate
• stir up
• arouse

【反义词】

• bore
• lull