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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But different levels of hospital did not have the referral relationship between each other. So it leads the competition prick up.
  但不同级别医院之间没有形成转诊关系，错位竞争，加剧了竞争。