stoke: [17] Stoke is a back-formation from stoker [17], which was borrowed from Dutch stoker. This in turn was derived from the verb stoken ‘put fuel into a furnace’, a descendant of Middle Dutch stoken ‘push, poke’. And stoken came from a prehistoric Germanic base *stok-, a variant of *stik-, *stek- ‘pierce, prick’, from which English gets stick, stitch, etc. So the etymological meaning underlying stoke is of ‘thrusting’ fuel into a fire like a sharp instrument being pushed into something. => stick, stitch
stoke (v.)
1680s, "to feed and stir up a fire in a fireplace or furnace," back-formation from stoker (1650s); ultimately from Dutch stoken "to stoke," from Middle Dutch stoken "to poke, thrust," related to stoc "stick, stump," from Proto-Germanic *stok- "pierce, prick," from PIE *steug-, extended form of root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see stick (v.)).
Meaning "to stir up, rouse" (feelings, etc.) is from 1837. Stoked "enthusiastic" recorded in surfer slang by 1963, but the extension of the word to persons is older, originally "to eat, to feed oneself up" (1882).
Having "stoked up," as the men called it, the brigades paraded at 10.30 a.m., ready for the next stage of the march. ["Cassell's History of the Boer War," 1901]
中文解释
1. stick => stoke.2. So the etymological meaning underlying stoke is of 'thrusting' fuel into a fire like a sharp instrument being pushed into something.
实用例句
1. A friend of his is having a do in Stoke.
他的一位朋友正在斯托克举办宴会。
来自柯林斯例句
2. These demands are helping to stoke fears of civil war.
这些要求助长了人们对内战的恐惧。
来自柯林斯例句
3. They've just opened a new hotel in the Stoke area.
他们刚在斯托克地区开了一家新宾馆。
来自柯林斯例句
4. to stoke up a fire with more coal
往火里再添一些煤
来自《权威词典》
5. He continued to stoke up hatred in his speeches.
