stir up
- 激起、引起、挑起：引起某人强烈的情感和想要做某事的欲望，使某物在空气或水中移动，引起某事发生，通常是不好或不愉快的事情。
- 搅拌、搅动：使某物在液体或混合物中移动，以混合或分散其中的成分。
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
stir up ( stirring, stirred, stirs )
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PHRASAL VERB If something stirs up dust or stirs up mud in water, it causes it to rise up and move around. 扬起
例：They saw first a cloud of dust and then the car that was stirring it up.
他们先是看到一团尘土，接着就看到扬起尘土的那辆车。
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PHRASAL VERB If you stir up a particular mood or situation, usually a bad one, you cause it. 挑起 [表不满]
例：As usual, Harriet is trying to stir up trouble.
与往常一样，哈里特正在试图挑起事端。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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As usual, Harriet is trying to stir up trouble.
与往常一样，哈里特正在试图挑起事端。
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Whenever he's around, he always manages to stir up trouble.
什么时候只要有他在，他就总要挑起点事来。
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They argued that his presence in the town could only stir up trouble.
他们争辩说他在城里出现只会搅起麻烦。
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And if you stir up a hornet's nest, you create trouble or problems.
VOA: special.2010.12.26
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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?
正如前文所说，霍布斯坚信，君主有权决定哪些言论,哪些书籍和哪些主张,是有益于社会和平,哪些是可能挑起冲突和战争的？
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Andif you stir up a hornet's nest, you create trouble or problems.
VOA: special.2009.06.28
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