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uplifter

/uhp-lif-ter/US // ʌpˈlɪf tər //

振奋剂,提升者,振奋人心,振作起来

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that uplifts.
    • : a person engaged in or devoted to social or moral uplift.

Examples

  • The uplifter saw the men between heats drinking beer out of tin pails.

  • Moderately used, and not worked to death, as Wordsworth employed it, the sonnet is a great uplifter of poesy.

  • She was the delight of the eye and of the ear, the soother of groans, the refuge of distress, the uplifter of the heart.

  • But just because he is the prophet, the uplifter, the proclaimer, Tolstoy is no longer the merely Russian writer.

  • She no longer knew herself, she, the uplifter, a crouching suppliant.