• vt. 激起；刺激…，使…興奮
• vi. 激動

ex-, 向外。-cit, 呼喊，移動，詞源同cite, cinema. 后用于心理學，指喚醒，興奮。

excite

excite: [14] The use of the word excite to convey ‘agitated elation’ is a comparatively recent development, first recorded from the mid 19th century. Before that it was a fairly neutral verb, meaning ‘produce a response, provoke’ (as in the rather formal ‘excite much comment’). It comes, perhaps via Old French exciter, from Latin excitāre ‘call forth, arouse, produce’. This was a variant of exciēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and ciēre ‘move, call’ (source also of English cite, incite, recite, and solicit).
=> cite, incite, recite, solicit

excite (v.)

mid-14c., "to move, stir up, instigate," from Old French esciter (12c.) or directly from Latin excitare "rouse, call out, summon forth, produce," frequentative of exciere "call forth, instigate," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + ciere "set in motion, call" (see cite). Of feelings, from late 14c. Of bodily organs or tissues, from 1831. Main modern sense of "emotionally agitate" is first attested 1821.

1. Reports of the plot of this unusual film tend to excite revulsion.

有關這部不同尋常電影的情節的報道常常令人生厭。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Daniel's early exposure to motor racing did not excite his interest.

丹尼爾早期與摩托車賽的接觸并沒有激發他的興趣。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The speaker has been warned to excite violence in the crowd.

演講者曾受到警告,不要在聽眾中挑起暴力.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. Yahoo was the exception, but Excite, Infoseek, HotBot and Lycos began as search engines.

Yahoo是個例外, 但是Excite, Infoseek, HotBot和 Lycos都開始轉型成為了搜索引擎.

來自互聯網

5. The amount of nicotine in these nicotine substitutes can be enough to excite the heart.

這些尼古丁替代品中的煙堿含量足以刺激心臟。

來自柯林斯例句