stimulate

动词，表示通过外力推动某事发展，或使生物、器官和思维活动变得更活跃。

💡 记忆钩子

把它想成用一下“刺激”或“推动”：可以推动经济、增长等事情向前发展，也可以唤醒身体或大脑，让它们开始更积极地运作。

📝 学习建议

学习时先记住“促进发展”和“激发活动”这两条主线，不要只把它机械地等同于中文的“刺激”。
中文“刺激”还常表示使人兴奋、难受或受到感官冲击；stimulate 更常强调让某种活动被促进或启动。

📖 中文释义

verb

core 促进发展

📖 指采取措施或施加影响，使经济、增长、需求等更快发展或更加活跃；这里的核心画面是把某件事向前推动。

💡 常用结构是 stimulate + economic growth/economic activity/demand，或 stimulate + 某个具体领域。主语通常是政策、投资、降息等能够产生推动作用的事物，宾语是被促进的活动。不要把它理解成单纯“鼓励某个人”，在经济和政策语境中它更常表示“促进某种发展”。

Lower interest rates are intended to stimulate economic growth.

降低利率旨在促进经济增长。
core 激发活动

📖 指使身体、器官、大脑或其他生物功能开始活动，或变得更加活跃；它仍然是“唤醒并推动运作”的意思。

💡 常用结构是 stimulate + the brain/mind/nerves/an organ，表示使某个身体部位或思维功能活跃起来。宾语通常是被激发的器官、系统或能力，而不是泛泛的情绪。医学和科学语境中可以表示实际的生理作用，日常语境中也可用于阅读、游戏等对思维的促进。

Puzzles stimulate my mind and help me stay focused.

拼图游戏能激发我的思维，帮助我保持专注。

stimulates present,singular,third-person stimulating participle,present stimulated participle,past stimulated past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 7 组

cause to be alert and energetic;

同义词集: stimulate arouse brace energize energise perk up

Coffee and tea stimulate me

This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate

反义: calm, de-energise, de-energize, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize 上位: affect 下位: animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify

act as a stimulant;

同义词集: stimulate excite

The book stimulated her imagination

This play stimulates

反义: dampen, stifle 上位: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on 下位: invigorate, irritate, quicken

cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; ;

同义词集: induce stimulate cause have get make

The ads induced me to buy a VCR

My children finally got me to buy a computer

My wife made me buy a new sofa

下位: bring, compel, decide, encourage, inspire, instigate, lead, let, obligate, oblige, persuade, prompt, solicit

provide the needed stimulus for

同义词集: provoke stimulate

上位: challenge 下位: entice, incite, instigate, jog, lure, set off, stir up, tempt

cause to occur rapidly

同义词集: induce stimulate rush hasten

the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions

上位: effect, effectuate, set up

stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of;

同义词集: stimulate shake shake up excite stir

These stories shook the community

the civil war shook the country

上位: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise 下位: affright, animate, arouse, elate, enliven, exalt, excite, fright, frighten, fuel, inspire, intoxicate, invigorate, invite, lift up, pick up, scare, sex, tempt, thrill, tickle, turn on, uplift, vibrate, wind up

stir feelings in; ;

同义词集: stimulate excite stir

stimulate my appetite

excite the audience

stir emotions

下位: blow, disgust, fellate, fuck off, go down on, gross out, jack off, jerk off, masturbate, quicken, repel, revolt, she-bop, suck, thrill, wank, whet, work

🌳 词源

源自拉丁语 stimulus，原义与“刺、刺棒、推动物”有关，后来发展出“促使行动或活动增强”的意思。

Proto-Indo-European *(s)tey-? Latin stimulus Latin stimulo Latin stimulatusbor. English stimulate Borrowed from Latin stimulātus, perfect passive participle of stimulō (“to urge, goad on”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin stimulus (“a sting or prick; a stimulus, goad”).

🔄 变式

stimulated past stimulates present stimulating present

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