Stimulus

(v. t.) A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.

(v. t.) That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.

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• He sought her presence more and more, and at last with a frequency that attested it had become to him an indispensable stimulus. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A light is the stimulus to the eye to see something, and the business of the eye is to see. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In general, every stimulus directs activity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Mr. Tupman did as he was requested; and the additional stimulus of the last glass settled his determination. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The stimulus to thinking is found when we wish to determine the significance of some act, performed or to be performed. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The lighting of Pall Mall with gas, in the spring of 1807, gave increased stimulus to the project, and application was made to Parliament to carry it into effect. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Our tempers certainly did exactly suit each other; and the love must ever predominate on one side, or there will be an end of all stimulus. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word _book_ acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The stimulus resides in the situation with which one is actually confronted. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• On the contrary, certain capacities of an individual are not brought out except under the stimulus of associating with others. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It was evident, from Mr. Trotter's flushed countenance and defective intonation, that he, too, had had recourse to vinous stimulus. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They were at once the deepest puzzle, the strongest obstruction, and the keenest stimulus, I had ever felt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Here the stimulus is not just the sight of the ball, or the sight of the other rolling it. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But may not the stimulus which love has given to fancy be some day exhausted? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The action of others is always influenced by deciding what stimuli shall call out their actions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• One does not blush to show modesty or embarrassment to others, but because the capillary circulation alters in response to stimuli. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Gradually certain stimuli are selected because of their relevancy, and others are degraded. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the organism. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He is merely selecting the stimuli supplied by the forms of the letters and the motor reactions of oral or written reproduction. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The environment can at most only supply stimuli to call out responses. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• By operating steadily to call out certain acts, habits are formed which function with the same uniformity as the original stimuli. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The worst thing about stubbornness of mind, about prejudices, is that they arrest development; they shut the mind off from new stimuli. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Repeated responses to recurrent stimuli may fix a habit of acting in a certain way. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The savage deals largely with crude stimuli; we have weighted stimuli. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It furnishes original stimuli; it supplies obstacles and resources. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The mere fact that customs are different means that the actual stimuli to behavior are different. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Human beings control animals by controlling the natural stimuli which influence them; by creating a certain environment in other words. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• For it would be seen that the infant reacts to stimuli by activities of handling, reaching, etc. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Their social activities are such as to restrict their objects of attention and interest, and hence to limit the stimuli to mental development. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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