perk up
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To become more upright
— His ears perked up when he heard there would be ice cream.
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To become more lively or enthusiastic.
— In hopes the coming Scenes your Mirth will raise To you, the Iust pretenders to the Bays; The Poet humbly thus a Reverence pays And you, the Contraries, that hate the Pains Of Labour’d Sense, or of Improving Brains: That feel the Lashes in a well-writ Play, He bids perk up and smile, the Satyr sleeps to Day.
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To cause to be more upright, straighten up.
— For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.
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to cause to be more lively or enthusiastic.
— […] ’tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk’d up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
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To exalt oneself, take on a higher status or position.
— […] they should not give heed to Women, that would be perking up in matters of Worshiping God.
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