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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• With more opening of the Chinese market, the competition in market will prick up.
  但随着国内市场开放程度的提高，市场竞争将进一步加剧。
• In the 21st century, modern science and technology develop rapidly and the competition of talents between the companies has all-time prick up. Then increase in human capital investment becomes the key talisman of enhancing business 'energy and strength, gaining biggest income and conquering the opponents.
  21世纪的今天，现代科学技术迅猛发展，企业间的竞争空前加剧，吸引高素质人才并最大限度激发其潜能是企业取得竞争优势的关键。
• The results show: the overfull migration rather prick up the imbalance of rural urban economic and deteriorate employment problem than stimulate economic development.
  结果表明：不受节制的城乡人口流动不但没有刺激经济增长，反而日益加剧了城乡经济不平衡、恶化了城市严重失业问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She stopped talking to prick up her ears.
  她不再说话，竖起耳朵听着。