• vt. 引起；喚醒；鼓勵
• vi. 激發(fā)；醒來；發(fā)奮

古英語前綴a-, 來自PIE*uz, 向上，向外，詞源同out. 單詞rouse, 喚醒。

arouse

arouse: [16] Shakespeare is the first writer on record to use arouse, in 2 Henry VI, 1593: ‘Loud howling wolves arouse the jades that drag the tragic melancholy night’. It was formed, with the intensive prefix a-, from rouse, a word of unknown origin which was first used in English in the 15th century as a technical term in falconry, meaning ‘plump up the feathers’.
=> rouse

arouse (v.)

1590s, "awaken" (transitive), from a- (1) "on" + rouse. Related: Aroused; arousing.

1. There is nothing like a long walk to arouse the appetite.

沒有什么比走很長的路更能激起食欲的了。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Their persecution only serves to arouse the opposition of the people.

他們的迫害只激起人民對他們的反抗.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. We must arouse them to fight for their own emancipation.

我們必須喚起他們?yōu)槠渥陨淼慕夥哦窢?

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. We must arouse them to fight with enemies.

我們必須喚起他們同敵人斗爭.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Silly mistakes and queer clothes often arouse ridicule.

荒謬的錯誤和古怪的服裝常會引起人們的訕笑.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》