stir·ring1 /ˈstɜːrɪŋ/ adjectiveadj EXCITEDproducing strong feelings or excitement in someone 激动人心的,令人振奋的 SYN rousing a stirring speech 令人振奋的演讲
—stirringly adverbadv
stirring• This was my favourite song as it was quite easy to sing and it had a stirring, catching rhythm.• It was a stirring place to visit but maybe you wouldn't want to live there.• Theatres and concert halls can be beautiful and stirring places, quite apart from what goes on in them.• I make them, despite a stirring strangeness in my stomach.• For the first couple of days this was stirring stuff - until practical difficulties began to take their toll.
stirring2 noun [countableC] SHOW/BE A SIGN OFan early sign that something is starting to happen 开始[出现,酝酿]的征兆stirring of the first stirrings of spring 春的萌动
stirring• Each morning there is a faint stirring of excitement when the zeks march to work.• I hear the stirring of wings.