stir

vt.
1.move,cause to change place 移动，使改变位置。
△H.VIII.5.4.17(5.3.16): “We may as well push a-gainst Paul’s as stir ’em.”要想挪动他们，就像推动圣保罗大教堂一样难。
2. prompt,arouse,awaken 促使，激起，唤醒。
△H.VIII.3.2.418 (417): “Some little memory of me will stirhim,/ I know his noble nature,not to let / Thy hope-ful service perish too.”我了解他的高贵天性，只要他对我还有一点念旧，就会提醒他不让你的效劳和希望跟我一起毁掉。
3. stir up,provoke,incite,instigate 煽动，挑拨，激励，教唆。
△As.1.1.172(163): “Now will I stir this game-ster.”现在我要去挑拨这个好斗逞强的小伙子了。
△Lr.2.4.277 (274): “If it be you that stirs these daughters’hearts / Against their father，”如果是你们鼓动这两个女儿跟她们的父亲作对。
△R.III.1.3.330(329): “And tellthem ’tis the Queen and her allies / That stir the Kingagainst the Duke my brother.”我告诉他们是王后及其同伙唆使国王对付我的公爵哥哥的。
～ vi.
1.move 移动，动身。
△Oth.3.1.30(28): “If she willstir hither,I shall seem to notify unto her.” (“Seem”is used to make fun of Cassio’s polite speech.) 倘若她愿出来，小的自当通报。
△2H.VI.2.4.18:“No,stir not foryour lives.Let her pass by.”不，你们要活就别动。让她走过去吧。
△3H.VI.5.1.96:“As I will meet thee if thoustir abroad，”只要你到城外活动，我就会跟你遭遇。
2. begin to move,go forth 走动，走开。
△ Com.5.1.167:“I will determine this before I stir.”我要把这件事问明白了再走。
3. be active,be up and about,be busy 活动，动起来，忙碌。
△Wiv.5.5.204(186): “If I did not think it hadbeen Anne Page,would I might never stir!”如果我没有把他当做了安·裴琪，我才不费这个事！
△Ham.1.5.34:“Wouldst thou not stir in this.”你如果对这件事情还无动于衷。
△Ham.4.4.53:“Rightly to be great / Is not tostir without great argument，”真正的伟大并不是没有什么大事情就轻举妄动。
△1H.IV.2.3.86(81): “I fear mybrother Mortimer doth stir /About his title，”我担心我的兄弟摩提麦又在为他的王位权利而活动。
△1H.IV. 3.2.46:“By being seldom seen,I could not stir / But like acomet I was wondered at，”正因为很少出头露面，我才能一有活动就像彗星一样使人感到惊奇。
4. be excited 激动。
△1H.IV.1.3.2:“Unapt to stir atthese indignities.”对于这些侮辱不轻易激动。
△2H.VI.2.4.49:“Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death /Hang over thee,as sure it shortly will.”发生了任何事也都不要激动，直到斩人斧落到你头上的时候，因为它肯定很快就要落到你头上了。
5. boil,be excited沸腾，激动。
△1H.IV.1.3.197:“O.the blood more stirs / To rouse a lion than to start ahare.”惊动一头狮子比惊起一只野兔更使人热血沸腾。
6. take action采取行动。
△H.VIII.5.3.39(5.2.74):“A man that more detests,more stirs against(i.e.ismore active against). / Both in his private conscienceand his place,/ Defacers of a public peace than I do.”一个人，无论在个人良心上还是在任职工作中，会比我更憎恶、更积极反对那些破坏社会治安的人。
7. be out of bed in the morning早晨起来。
△Oth.3.1.26(24):“If the gentlewoman that attends the general'swife be stirring,tell her there’s one Cassio entreatsher a little favour of speech.”要是侍候将军夫人的那位女士起来了，请告诉她有一个叫凯西奥的人求她出来说句话。
△R.III.3.2.36: “Good morrow,Catesby,you areearly stirring.”早安，凯茨比，你起得早啊。
Phrases:
stir about: move about,keep busy奔走，张罗。
△Rom.4.2.40(39):“I will stir about，”我来张罗。
stir on: encourage,incite,instigate鼓励，激励，唆使。
△Tw.3.2.65(58): “and by all means stir on the youth to an answer.” i.e. encourage the youth to re-ply. 并且我还要设法怂恿那年轻人回答。
stir up: ❶excite,raise激起，引起。
△3H.VI.5.5.63:“You have no children,butchers: if you had,/ Thethought of them would have stirred up remorse.”你们没有子女，屠夫们；如果你们有子女，想起他们该会唤起你们一点怜悯之心。
❷incite,instigate激励，煽动。
△3H.VI.4.8.11: “and thou,son Clarence,/ Shalt stir up in Suf>folk,Norfolk,and in Kent / The knights and gentlemen to come with thee.”你，贤婿克拉仑斯，要到萨福克、诺福克和肯特去激励那里的骑士豪绅随你到这里来。