stoke
柯林斯詞典
1. V-T If you stoke a fire, you add coal or wood to it to keep it burning. 給…添煤; 給…添柴火
She was stoking the stove with sticks of maple. 她正在給爐子添楓樹枝。
2. PHRASAL VERB Stoke up means the same as . 給…添煤; 給…添柴火
He stoked up the fire in the hearth. 他給壁爐里的火添柴。
3. V-T If you stoke something such as a feeling, you cause it to be felt more strongly. 激起 (某種感覺)
These demands are helping to stoke fears of civil war. 這些要求激起了對內戰(zhàn)的恐懼。
4. PHRASAL VERB Stoke up means the same as . 激起 (某種感覺)
He has sent his proposals in the hope of stoking up interest for the idea. 他已上呈自己的建議,希望能激起人們對這種想法的興趣。
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stoke /st??k/ (stoking,stoked,stokes)
劍橋詞典
- to add fuel to a large fire and move the fuel around with a stick so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat
添加燃料撥旺(爐火)
Once the fire had been stoked up, the room began to get warm . 爐火添了木柴撥旺之后,屋子里開始暖和起來。
to encourage bad ideas or feelings in a lot of people
煽動,激起(不良想法或情感)
He's been accused of stoking up racial hatred in the region . 他被控在這一地區(qū)煽動種族仇恨。
Rumours of an emergency meeting of the finance committee stoked the atmosphere of crisis . 財政部長們召開緊急會議的謠傳使人感到危機重重。