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

• 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。
• But its creators hope it will make dogs prick up their ears and bark forcing their owners to pay attention to the product being advertised.
  广告制作人希望可以让狗竖起耳朵并吠叫，引起主人注意，让其关注广告中的商品。
• 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。
• 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。
• The addition of SiO2 can keep heavy metals leaching from slag, but the addition of CaO prick up heavy metals leaching.
  SiO2的添加有效的抑制了重金属的浸出，而CaO的添加反而使重金属的浸出加剧。
• Thirdly, the pervasion of western ideology will prick up and the ideological struggle becomes more complex than ever before.
  西方意识形态的渗透会进一步加剧，意识形态的斗争将出现前所未有的复杂性。
• The deterioration of global environments brings trade restriction measures into the consideration of environment protection and the prick up of international economy competition causes the cut down of tariff and non-tariff trade barrier.
  全球环境问题的恶化使得人们开始考虑使用经贸限制措施促进环境的保护，国际经济竞争的加剧使关税和传统的非关税壁垒进一步削减。
• The crack of crack inflected the stability of the Grotto, and the effect of water prick up the effloresce of the cultural relics in the Grotto.
  裂隙发育影响了石窟的稳定性，水的活动加剧了石窟文物的风化。
• Praise from the manager for Aguero, linked in the press with a move to Chelsea in the summer, may make ears prick up but Ancelotti qualified his observation on the21-year-old Argentine.
  来自安切洛蒂的赞美，使得阿圭罗在今年夏天转会切尔西产生了不少的联系。安胖一直在仔细观察着这位21岁的阿根廷人。
• But the marketization reform tropism has being prick up the trend of the country village going to edge, the development of the economic society in the large village of our country met various predicaments.
  但以市场和城市为中心的改革取向加剧了我国农村的边缘化趋势，我国农村的经济社会发展遇到了各种各样的困境。