喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture 'stir' as a spoon going round and round in a pot: something that was sitting still is set gently moving and mixing. From that one picture grows everything else — a tiny movement after stillness, a feeling that starts to move inside you, getting a crowd or a person worked up, and even 'stirring up' trouble. One — 'stir' meaning prison — comes in by a separate door and is not this picture at all.

可以把 stir 想成一根湯匙在鍋裡一圈一圈地轉：原本靜止不動的東西，被輕輕帶動、攪起來、混在一起。從這一個畫面長出…更多收起可以把 stir 想成一根湯匙在鍋裡一圈一圈地轉：原本靜止不動的東西，被輕輕帶動、攪起來、混在一起。從這一個畫面長出其餘所有意思——靜止後的一點點晃動、心裡開始翻動的一股情緒、把一群人或一個人「攪得」激動起來、甚至「攪起」是非。只有一個例外（stir＝監獄）是從另一扇門進來的，跟這個畫面無關。

原始詞典資料17 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

stirverb詞源 1/stɜː/

  • 1

    To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.

    • She stirred the pudding with a spoon.
    • He stirred his coffee so the sugar wouldn't stay at the bottom.
  • 2

    To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.

    • Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?
  • 3

    To emotionally affect; to touch, to move.

    • And what delights can equal those ⁠That stir the spirit’s inner deeps, ⁠When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?
  • 4

    To incite to action.

    • An Ate, stirring him to bloud and strife […]
    • The Soldiers love her Brother’s Memory; / And for her sake some Mutiny will stir.
  • 5

    To bring into debate; to agitate.

    • Preserue the rights of thy place, but stirre not questions of Iurisdiction : and rather assume thy right in silence, and de facto, then voice it with claimes, and challenges.
  • 6

    obsoleteTo disturb, to disrupt.

    • They ſay he is the King of Perſea. But if he dare attempt to ſtir your ſiege, Twere requiſite he ſhould be ten times more, For all fleſh quakes at your magnificence.
  • 7

    datedTo change the place of in any manner; to move.

    • […] notwithstanding the swelling of my Foot, so that I had never yet in five days been able to stir it, but as it was lifted.
    • 'But the bolts can't be stirred, dear,' protested Myra. 'I've tried myself until my poor thumbs are nearly dislocated. […]'
  • 8

    To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.

    • And especially if they happen to have any superior character or possessions in this world, they fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears[…]
    • I had not strength to stir or strive, / But felt that I was still alive— […]
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.

    • That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.
    • Though as I said it, glibly, reassuringly, I knew that I lied, and a little snake of guilt stirred and began to uncoil slightly, guilt and its constant companion deceit.
  • 10

    To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.

    • All are not fit with them to stir and toil.
    • Meanwhile, the friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.
  • 11

    To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.

    • “Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,” remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: “Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!”

stirnoun詞源 1/stɜː/

  • 1

    The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)

    • Can you give the soup a little stir?
  • 2

    agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

    • 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem). Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
    • Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
  • 3

    Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

    • Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
  • 4

    Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

stirnoun詞源 2/stɜː/

  • 1

    slangJail; prison.

    • He's going to be spending maybe ten years in stir.
    • The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。