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单词 excite
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Definition of excite in English:

excite

verb ɪkˈsʌɪtɛkˈsʌɪtɪkˈsaɪt
[with object]
  • 1Cause (someone) to feel very enthusiastic and eager.

    flying still excites me

    我对乘飞机旅行至今仍会感到激动。

    Gould was excited by these discoveries

    古尔德为这些发现感到兴奋。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the things that so excited me at the outset was that this show is about my life!
    • That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
    • For Davis to beat the recall, he must do more to excite his own troops to come to his rescue.
    • He felt excited by his discoveries and wished there was someone simpatico whom he could share it with.
    • Their struggle from such a low point in their lives inspires and… erm… excites me.
    • Nevertheless, I made him feel relaxed, and his work excited me.
    • In reality what it is about is trying to inspire and excite people to think about the town centre.
    • ‘… The Fascist Brothel’ may well excite the art-rock lovers but those who crave for a bit of style to go with it may be left a little disappointed.
    • My grandfather was excited by his discovery and contacted his brother to expand the program by working collectively with other events.
    • For me, Life Through My Eyes is about what inspires me, excites me, aggravates me, relaxes me, outrages me and helps me.
    • The concept immediately excited Niels Bohr, Pauli, Einstein, Heisenberg and others interested in quantum theory.
    • I am excited to see gay cinema coming into its own.
    • Indeed, the opportunity to hone his skills as a tactician and motivator excites him much more than completing a century knock.
    • Not many though write with such stark conviction that the music moves, scares and excites you all at once.
    • I told myself I wasn't returning to work until I could find a job that excited me in the worst way.
    • Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
    • I was quite excited by the discoveries that afternoon, even though at the time I had no idea that I had actually bagged a new genus of fossil fish that day.
    Synonyms
    thrill, exhilarate, animate, enliven, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, galvanize, electrify, fire the imagination of, fire the enthusiasm of
    delight, enrapture, intoxicate
    informal send, tickle, tickle someone pink, buck up, pep up, ginger up, give someone a buzz, give someone a kick, get someone going
    North American informal light a fire under, give someone a charge
    rare inspirit
    1. 1.1 Arouse (someone) sexually.
      激起(某人)的性欲
      his Mediterranean vibrancy excited and stimulated her

      他那股地中海沿岸居民所具有的活力激起了她的性欲。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • There was a doctor at one point who basically would not perform the final surgery on a male to female person unless she sexually excited him.
      • Also, boys who are smart get me very excited.
      • Even the most graphic porn doesn't excite you any more.
      • Separated by the confines of the performance space, dancers perform the unsuggestible or move the figures in sexually provocative ways to excite a growing crowd and entice them to stay on their side.
      • Her fear, her attempts to resist him only excite his lust.
      • Doesn't excite me sexually, but I could certainly watch it again and again, even as it makes me wince.
      • I suppose one could see it as an old man getting excited by the sexuality of young girls.
      • Concentrate on areas that particularly excite you, but try not to stimulate only the most obvious bits.
      • Maybe he's very disturbed because he was excited by her pain?
      • What excites a person sexually (particularly if it's only visual) is as distinct as that person's fingerprints.
      • He excited me in every way right from the beginning, and that excitement never went away.
      Synonyms
      arouse, arouse sexually, make someone feel sexually excited, stimulate, titillate, inflame
      please, attract, entice
      informal turn someone on, give someone a thrill, get someone going, float someone's boat, do it for someone, light someone's fire, tickle someone's fancy
  • 2Give rise to (a feeling or reaction)

    引起(某种感情或反应);激起

    the ability to excite interest in others

    引起他人兴趣的能力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But it is an investment which generates praise, rather than excites passion.
    • Nothing in his uncle Gaius so excited his envy and admiration as the fact that he had in so short a time run through the vast wealth which Tiberius had left him.
    • It's interest groups that have gone public and have learned to excite public apprehensions and public opposition.
    • Third, to excite feelings of devotion, these being aroused more effectively by things seen than by things heard.
    • If the sounds in music do not combine in a way that excites interest, then there is no reason to pay attention.
    • The smell of the sweet South Pacific sea air mingling with vivid island flowers excites the passions.
    • It was wrong to use private letters from bereaved relations of soldiers killed in Iraq in order to excite sympathy for his own doubts and anguish, knowing that their suffering must be incomparably greater.
    • There were very few overcoats amongst them, and their appearance certainly excited the pity and compassion of the people they passed.
    • Therefore, I shall only name a few of the attractions, enough to elicit and excite the public curiosity.
    • Holmes only chooses subjects that excite his curiosity and sympathy as well as his literary admiration.
    • Yet it excites no nostalgia: glad to have been, we don't dream of going back.
    • The aroma of the sea brought back fond memories and excited new feelings, the cry of gulls overhead was dearer than any symphony.
    • There is something specific about water that excites desire and envy.
    • An even closer examination excites a formidable reaction - that is to say, the price is worthy of the label!
    • Similarly East Timor excited passions and dredged up long-suppressed feelings of national guilt.
    • So, since their sectional interest excites no passions amongst the populace, some are attracted by more radical measures.
    • Can there be any group, on the entire planet, that so excites the hatred of the British public?
    • If the advert merely excites your curiosity or interest, something Maloney calls curious disbelief, that will be enough.
    • The disorder that displacement causes excites contemporary passions, for and against.
    • The system is designed to send vibrations to sensitive parts of the driver's body, and it could excite feelings in them that have long lain dormant.
    Synonyms
    provoke, stir up, elicit, rouse, arouse, stimulate, kindle, trigger (off), touch off, spark off, awaken, incite, instigate, foment, bring out, cause, bring about
    literary enkindle
  • 3Produce a state of increased energy or activity in (a physical or biological system)

    激发,激励

    the energy of an electron is sufficient to excite the atom

    一个电子的能量已足以激发原子。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • MRI relies on electromagnetic energy to excite water molecules in the brain to create an anatomical map of the brain.
    • Now, when this wavefront hits a material, some of the wavelets will hit atoms and excite electrons to a higher energy state.
    • Alkaline phosphatase-labeled complexes react with the substrate creating a chemical reaction and a source of energy to excite the dioxetane substrate.
    • The harmless radio waves excite protons that form the nuclei of hydrogen atoms in the body.
    • The absorbed energy excites electrons in the phosphorescent material and causes them to be caught in potential energy troughs.
    • By giving the vaccine along with another drug that excites the immune system, doctors can teach Bonet's own immune system to fight her cancer.
    • The center also activates the autonomic motor nerve cells in the cranial nerve nuclei that excite peristalsis in the smooth muscle of the distal esophageal body and relax the lower esophageal sphincter.
    • ATP provides the energy to excite the electrons, and luciferin is one of the relatively rare molecules that gives off energy as light rather than heat.
    • The more massive salt molecules themselves need a larger contribution of energy in order to excite them.
    • Normal epithelial tissue gives off yellow-green fluorescence when excited by helium-cadmium laser light.
    • External energy pumped into the atoms of the lasing medium excites electrons to higher energy states; returning to their base state, they emit photons.
    • In conventional solar panels the energy from the sun excites electrons in a semiconducting material such as silicon, creating the current flow.
    • Minute clam odor traces can excite the nervous system, which then launches an attack on the prey.
    • The researchers sent single photons into a crystal whose atomic states had been excited by laser pulses.
    • Heat is one example; if the sample is heated, thermal energy will excite some electrons up into the Conduction Band.
    • ‘In our new approach, the act of MRI scanning itself excites protons in blood cells as they pass through the plane of the scan,’ Judd explained.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'incite someone to do something'): from Old French exciter or Latin excitare, frequentative of exciere 'call out or forth'. sense 1 dates from the mid 19th century.

Rhymes

affright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write

Definition of excite in US English:

excite

verbikˈsītɪkˈsaɪt
[with object]
  • 1Cause strong feelings of enthusiasm and eagerness in (someone)

    使激动;使兴奋;刺激

    flying still excites me

    我对乘飞机旅行至今仍会感到激动。

    Gould was excited by these discoveries

    古尔德为这些发现感到兴奋。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The concept immediately excited Niels Bohr, Pauli, Einstein, Heisenberg and others interested in quantum theory.
    • ‘… The Fascist Brothel’ may well excite the art-rock lovers but those who crave for a bit of style to go with it may be left a little disappointed.
    • Nevertheless, I made him feel relaxed, and his work excited me.
    • That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
    • I am excited to see gay cinema coming into its own.
    • One of the things that so excited me at the outset was that this show is about my life!
    • In reality what it is about is trying to inspire and excite people to think about the town centre.
    • My grandfather was excited by his discovery and contacted his brother to expand the program by working collectively with other events.
    • Indeed, the opportunity to hone his skills as a tactician and motivator excites him much more than completing a century knock.
    • Their struggle from such a low point in their lives inspires and… erm… excites me.
    • Not many though write with such stark conviction that the music moves, scares and excites you all at once.
    • Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
    • I was quite excited by the discoveries that afternoon, even though at the time I had no idea that I had actually bagged a new genus of fossil fish that day.
    • I told myself I wasn't returning to work until I could find a job that excited me in the worst way.
    • For me, Life Through My Eyes is about what inspires me, excites me, aggravates me, relaxes me, outrages me and helps me.
    • He felt excited by his discoveries and wished there was someone simpatico whom he could share it with.
    • For Davis to beat the recall, he must do more to excite his own troops to come to his rescue.
    Synonyms
    thrill, exhilarate, animate, enliven, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, galvanize, electrify, fire the imagination of, fire the enthusiasm of
    1. 1.1 Arouse (someone) sexually.
      激起(某人)的性欲
      his kiss thrilled and excited her
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Doesn't excite me sexually, but I could certainly watch it again and again, even as it makes me wince.
      • Also, boys who are smart get me very excited.
      • I suppose one could see it as an old man getting excited by the sexuality of young girls.
      • Concentrate on areas that particularly excite you, but try not to stimulate only the most obvious bits.
      • Separated by the confines of the performance space, dancers perform the unsuggestible or move the figures in sexually provocative ways to excite a growing crowd and entice them to stay on their side.
      • Even the most graphic porn doesn't excite you any more.
      • What excites a person sexually (particularly if it's only visual) is as distinct as that person's fingerprints.
      • There was a doctor at one point who basically would not perform the final surgery on a male to female person unless she sexually excited him.
      • Her fear, her attempts to resist him only excite his lust.
      • He excited me in every way right from the beginning, and that excitement never went away.
      • Maybe he's very disturbed because he was excited by her pain?
      Synonyms
      arouse, arouse sexually, make someone feel sexually excited, stimulate, titillate, inflame
  • 2Bring out or give rise to (a feeling or reaction)

    引起(某种感情或反应);激起

    the ability to excite interest in others

    引起他人兴趣的能力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Third, to excite feelings of devotion, these being aroused more effectively by things seen than by things heard.
    • The system is designed to send vibrations to sensitive parts of the driver's body, and it could excite feelings in them that have long lain dormant.
    • Holmes only chooses subjects that excite his curiosity and sympathy as well as his literary admiration.
    • The smell of the sweet South Pacific sea air mingling with vivid island flowers excites the passions.
    • The disorder that displacement causes excites contemporary passions, for and against.
    • Therefore, I shall only name a few of the attractions, enough to elicit and excite the public curiosity.
    • Similarly East Timor excited passions and dredged up long-suppressed feelings of national guilt.
    • Nothing in his uncle Gaius so excited his envy and admiration as the fact that he had in so short a time run through the vast wealth which Tiberius had left him.
    • There is something specific about water that excites desire and envy.
    • If the sounds in music do not combine in a way that excites interest, then there is no reason to pay attention.
    • The aroma of the sea brought back fond memories and excited new feelings, the cry of gulls overhead was dearer than any symphony.
    • If the advert merely excites your curiosity or interest, something Maloney calls curious disbelief, that will be enough.
    • It's interest groups that have gone public and have learned to excite public apprehensions and public opposition.
    • There were very few overcoats amongst them, and their appearance certainly excited the pity and compassion of the people they passed.
    • But it is an investment which generates praise, rather than excites passion.
    • An even closer examination excites a formidable reaction - that is to say, the price is worthy of the label!
    • So, since their sectional interest excites no passions amongst the populace, some are attracted by more radical measures.
    • Can there be any group, on the entire planet, that so excites the hatred of the British public?
    • It was wrong to use private letters from bereaved relations of soldiers killed in Iraq in order to excite sympathy for his own doubts and anguish, knowing that their suffering must be incomparably greater.
    • Yet it excites no nostalgia: glad to have been, we don't dream of going back.
    Synonyms
    provoke, stir up, elicit, rouse, arouse, stimulate, kindle, trigger, trigger off, touch off, spark off, awaken, incite, instigate, foment, bring out, cause, bring about
  • 3Produce a state of increased energy or activity in (a physical or biological system)

    激发,激励

    the energy of an electron is sufficient to excite the atom

    一个电子的能量已足以激发原子。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • MRI relies on electromagnetic energy to excite water molecules in the brain to create an anatomical map of the brain.
    • ATP provides the energy to excite the electrons, and luciferin is one of the relatively rare molecules that gives off energy as light rather than heat.
    • Heat is one example; if the sample is heated, thermal energy will excite some electrons up into the Conduction Band.
    • Now, when this wavefront hits a material, some of the wavelets will hit atoms and excite electrons to a higher energy state.
    • Alkaline phosphatase-labeled complexes react with the substrate creating a chemical reaction and a source of energy to excite the dioxetane substrate.
    • The center also activates the autonomic motor nerve cells in the cranial nerve nuclei that excite peristalsis in the smooth muscle of the distal esophageal body and relax the lower esophageal sphincter.
    • External energy pumped into the atoms of the lasing medium excites electrons to higher energy states; returning to their base state, they emit photons.
    • By giving the vaccine along with another drug that excites the immune system, doctors can teach Bonet's own immune system to fight her cancer.
    • Minute clam odor traces can excite the nervous system, which then launches an attack on the prey.
    • ‘In our new approach, the act of MRI scanning itself excites protons in blood cells as they pass through the plane of the scan,’ Judd explained.
    • The researchers sent single photons into a crystal whose atomic states had been excited by laser pulses.
    • The absorbed energy excites electrons in the phosphorescent material and causes them to be caught in potential energy troughs.
    • The more massive salt molecules themselves need a larger contribution of energy in order to excite them.
    • In conventional solar panels the energy from the sun excites electrons in a semiconducting material such as silicon, creating the current flow.
    • Normal epithelial tissue gives off yellow-green fluorescence when excited by helium-cadmium laser light.
    • The harmless radio waves excite protons that form the nuclei of hydrogen atoms in the body.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘incite someone to do something’): from Old French exciter or Latin excitare, frequentative of exciere ‘call out or forth’. excite (sense 1) dates from the mid 19th century.

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