使兴奋，使刺激：产生或使产生兴趣、兴奋或刺激。

To be or cause to become interested, pleasurably excited, or stimulated.

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这些人的生活充满戏剧性，使人不断产生兴趣。

There's a sufficiency of drama in these lives to sustain your interest.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

那次旅游使我产生了去国外旅行的兴趣。

That trip gave me a taste for foreign travel.

《牛津词典》

So the strong classical conditioning stories about fetishes and fears sound silly and extreme and they probably are but at the same time classical conditioning can be used at least to shape the focus of our desires and of our interests.

用经典条件作用来解释恋物癖和恐惧,听起来很蠢也很极端,或许是这样,但至少经典条件作用,能够使我们产生,对欲望和兴趣的关注。

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