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stimulus

/stim-yuh-luhs/US // ˈstɪm yə ləs //UK // (ˈstɪmjʊləs) //

刺激物,刺激因素,刺激,刺激性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural stim·u·li [stim-yuh-lahy]. /ˈstɪm yəˌlaɪ/.

    • : something that incites to action or exertion or quickens action, feeling, thought, etc.: The approval of others is a potent stimulus.
    • : Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that excites an organism or part to functional activity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounprovocation

Examples

  • Congress has stalled on compromising on another stimulus bill to help boost states, the unemployed, and small businesses, and a less expensive proposal by Republicans failed to pass a vote in the Senate on Thursday.

  • The scaled back stimulus package does not include funding for a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks—a proposal that for months Republican and Democratic leaders supported.

  • In Hangzhou, China, municipal authorities are working with Alibaba, headquartered there, to launch a digital-coupon stimulus program via the Alipay platform.

  • The second round of stimulus checks would cost around $290 billion—the price tag of the first round of stimulus checks.

  • With drills, you get the neuromuscular stimulus when the body is tired.

  • Supporters of the president argue these trends are inevitable and the Stimulus made a terrible situation better.

  • First, they let the stimulus boost expire, which that meant an average family of three receiving benefits lost $29 per month.

  • It is “yo,” the absence of reason, the sound of a simply occupying and desperate stimulus.

  • The stimulus, with its emphasis on public sector jobs, did little for Main Street.

  • And still—an auto-bailout, a health care bill, a stimulus, the regular lifting of the debt ceiling, defense and budget deals.

  • In the same way the technical form and mechanism of production were presumed to respond to an automatic stimulus.

  • In a strict sense, of course, no child's drawing is absolutely spontaneous and independent of external stimulus and guidance.

  • Some other stimulus to our Territorial recruiting than the fear of invasion will have to be invented in future.

  • British pasture farming was to be annihilated, and an immense stimulus given to that of our continental rivals.

  • What an agitation, and at the same time what an unhealthy stimulus to his over-sensibility!