If an event causes a stir, it causes great excitement, shock, or anger among people.
His film has caused a stir.
他的电影引起了轰动。
stir up
If something stirs up dust or stirs up mud in water, it causes it to rise up and move around.
They saw first a cloud of dust and then the car that was stirring it up.
他们先看到了扬起的一团尘土,然后才看到了汽车。
If you stir up a particular mood or situation, usually a bad one, you cause it.
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。
stirs , stirring , stirred
If you stir a liquid or other substance, you move it around or mix it in a container using something such as a spoon.
Stir the soup for a few seconds.
把汤搅动几秒钟。
There was Mrs Bellingham, stirring sugar into her tea.
贝林汉姆太太正在那里把糖搅进茶里。
If you stir, you move slightly, for example because you are uncomfortable or beginning to wake up.
move
Eileen shook him, and he started to stir.
艾琳晃了晃他,他开始醒过来。
If you do not stir from a place, you do not move from it.
move
She had not stirred from the house that evening.
她那天晚上没有离开过那座房子。
If something stirs or if the wind stirs it, it moves gently in the wind.
Palm trees stir in the soft Pacific breeze.
棕榈树在太平洋和煦的微风里轻轻摇动。
If a particular memory, feeling, or mood stirs or is stirred in you, you begin to think about it or feel it.
Then a memory stirs in you and you start feeling anxious.
接着一段回忆涌上心头,你开始感到焦虑不安。
Amy remembered the anger he had stirred in her.
艾米记得他曾惹自己生气。