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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near by made Gerald prick up his ears.
  那是一个很暖的春天夜晚，在萨凡纳的一家酒店，邻座的一位生客的偶尔谈话引起灰拉尔德的侧耳细听。
• 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。