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

• 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。
• 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 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 network externalities prick up the contest of suppliers of modularity and promote the course of value modularity integration and industry convergence.
  价值模块的网络外部性加剧了模块供应商之间的竞争，进一步促进了价值模块整合和产业融合的过程。
• With the exposure of false cases of listed companies which are audited by CPA, the credit crisis and professional risks of CPA profession prick up more and more.
  随着经注册会计师审计的上市公司造假案件的频频曝光，注册会计师行业的信誉危机和执业风险日益加剧。
• She stopped talking to prick up her ears.
  她不再说话，竖起耳朵听着。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。