单词 | stimulus |
释义 | stim·u·lus (stĭmyə-ləs) n. pl. stim·u·li (-lī′) 1. Something causing or regarded as causing a response. 2. An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response. 3. a. Something that incites or rouses to action; an incentive: "Works which were in themselves poor have often proved a stimulus to the imagination" (W.H. Auden). b. Government spending designed to generate or increase economic activity. [Latin, goad.] |
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