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

• 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。
• In the end, based on the economy analyzing of e-insurance and the practice, We get some conclusions: 1, e-insurance will prick up the competition between insurance companies.
  最后，在对网络保险进行经济学分析的基础上，结合国外保险公司发展网络保险的实际情况，提出了几点总结：一、网络保险将加剧保险公司的竞争；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。