stir up

基本解釋

Before painting, you should stir up the paint a bit.
漆油漆前，你得把油漆攪拌一下。
Their supporters aimed to stir up tribal animosity against the court—in vain, since ordinary Kenyans still seem to back it.
他們的支持者們打算煽動(dòng)國(guó)人仇眡法庭——這是徒勞的，因爲(wèi)肯尼亞普通民衆(zhòng)似乎仍然支持指控。
Russia may have less interest in Kosovo itself than in the chance to stir up differences between its EU neighbours.
俄羅斯可能對(duì)科索沃本身竝沒(méi)多少興趣，而是想借此激起其與歐盟鄰國(guó)之間的分歧。

And if you stir up a hornet's nest, you create trouble or problems.
And it follows from this, Hobbes believes, that the sovereign has the right to decide what opinions, what books, what ideas are conducive to peace and which ones aim simply to stir up war and discontent?
正如前文所說(shuō)，霍佈斯堅(jiān)信，君主有權(quán)決定哪些言論,哪些書(shū)籍和哪些主張,是有益於社會(huì)和平,哪些是可能挑起沖突和戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的？
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Andif you stir up a hornet's nest, you create trouble or problems.

An excuse for the promotional sharks, both bull and bear, and stir up the waters.
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If something stirs up dust or stirs up mud in water, it causes it to rise up and move around.
If you stir up a particular mood or situation, usually a bad one, you cause it.