prick up

英 [prɪk ʌp]

美 [prɪk ʌp]

竖起耳朵听; （耳朵）竖起来认真听

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB-ERG 竖起耳朵听;耳朵支起
  If someonepricks uptheirearsor if theirears prick up, they listen eagerly when they suddenly hear an interesting sound or an important piece of information.
  1. She stopped talking to prick up her ears.
     她不再说话，竖起耳朵听着。
  2. ...ears which prick up at the mention of royalty.
     一提到皇室就竖起耳朵的人

英英释义

verb

• raise
  1. The dog pricked up his ears
  Synonym:prickcock up

双语例句

• The negligence of farmers 'ownership of land in the process of urbanization will ultimately cause farmers will lose land and become vagrant, which will prick up the polarization of richness and poverty, hence will menace social stabilization.
  城市化过程中漠视农民的土地权，最终将导致大量农民失去土地成为流民，加剧社会严重的贫富分化，影响社会的稳定。
• Mr Obama's line in his state-of-the-union speech in January that "I don't accept second place for the United States of America" caused quite a few ears in China to prick up.
  一月份，奥巴马在其“联邦之州”的演讲中，说道“我不接受美国第二的位置”，引得很多中国人纷纷竖起耳朵。
• Never point at someone with a chopstick and do not use it to prick food in order to pick it up.
  不要用筷子去指着别人，也不要通过用筷子戳在食物上面把食物夹起来。
• Changes in temperature prick up the thermal stresses in the dam.
  水泥水化热是使砌石拱坝施工期产生温度应力的主要因素，外界气温的变化加剧了坝体内部产生的温度应力。
• Hey, prick, what are you doing not cleaning up your kits?
  嗨，蠢货，你不整理你的工具箱，在干嘛？
• And the Ancient Near Eastern listener would prick up their ears: I thought I knew this story.
  那些古代近东的听众们都竖起耳朵：，我原以为我知道这个故事。
• Don't prick that boil; allow it to swell up and burst.
  不要挑破那个疖子；让它肿起来自己破裂好了。
• In the end, based on the economy analyzing of e-insurance and the practice, We get some conclusions: 1, e-insurance will prick up the competition between insurance companies.
  最后，在对网络保险进行经济学分析的基础上，结合国外保险公司发展网络保险的实际情况，提出了几点总结：一、网络保险将加剧保险公司的竞争；
• She stopped talking to prick up her ears.
  她不再说话，竖起耳朵听着。
• China already joined WTO the overseas medicine giants all entered China and share OTC market, market competition increasingly prick up.
  随着我国加入WTO日益深入，国外的医药巨头纷纷抢滩中国OTC市场，市场竞争程度日益加剧。