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Agitate Agitation Agitated Verb 动词   [V N Means

英语单词 agitate
英美音标 英 ['ædʒɪteɪt] 美 ['ædʒɪteɪt]
中文释义 v.煽动;搅动;焦虑
英语例句 (1) They sent agents to agitate the local people.
(2) Agitate the mixture to dissolve the powder.
(3) He was agitated about his wife's health.
(4) He became quite agitated when he was asked about his criminal past.
中文例句 (1) 他们派遣情报人员煽动当地的民众。
(2) 搅动混合物而使粉末溶化。
(3) 他为他妻子的健康感到不安。
(4) 当问到他过去的犯罪历史时,他变得十分焦虑不安。
vocabulary简明 Agitate means to stir up. If you watch a horror movie at bedtime, you may be too agitated to sleep. Movies like that can agitate all sorts of adrenaline responses in the body.
vocabulary扩展 Agitate derives from a Latin word that means "to drive away." The meaning has changed, but you can see where old meets new—a washing machine agitates dirty clothes in warm soapy water to drive away the dirt. You agitate or shake up salad dressing to mix it, driving the oil away into the vinegar.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]煽动;鼓动;抗议 If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
  [V for n]
  [Also V]
  • The women who worked in these mills had begun to agitate for better conditions.

    在这些工厂里做工的妇女们开始抗议要求改善工作条件。

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  • At least seventy students were injured in the continuing agitation against the decision.

    至少有70名学生在反对该决定的持续抗争中受伤。

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[VERB 动词]搅动;摇动 If you agitate something, you shake it so that it moves about.
  [V n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • All you need to do is gently agitate the water with a finger or paintbrush...

    你只需要用手指或刷子轻轻地搅动水。

  • Its molecules can be agitated by microwave energy.

    微波能量可以使其分子随之运动。

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  • Temperature is a measure of the agitation of the molecules of matter.

    温度是物质分子运动的一个计量单位。

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[VERB 动词]使焦虑;使狂躁不安 If something agitates you, it worries you and makes you unable to think clearly or calmly.
  [V n]
  • The thought of them getting her possessions when she dies agitates her.

    一想到他们可能会在她死后得到她的财产,她就心绪不安。

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