agitation
agitation 英 [ˌædʒɪˈteɪʃn] 美 [ˌædʒɪˈteʃən]
n. 焦虑，烦乱；搅动，煽动
名词复数:agitations
- Agitation is the act of stirring things up, like the agitation of a washing machine that moves the water, detergent, and clothes around and gets the dirt out or the agitation of political activists who want people to work together to do something.
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- n. 焦虑，烦乱；搅动，煽动
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1. Dot arrived in a state of great agitation.
多特到达时十分焦虑不安。
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2. widespread agitation for social reform
要求社会改革的大骚动
- agitation (n.) 1560s, "debate, discussion" (on the notion of "a mental tossing to and fro"), from French agitation, from Latin agitationem (nominative agitatio) "motion, agitation," noun of action from past participle stem of agitare "move to and fro," frequentative of agere "to set in motion, drive forward; keep in movement" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move"). Physical sense of "state of being shaken or moving violently" is from 1580s; meaning "state of being mentally agitated" is from 1722; that of "arousing and sustaining public attention" to some political or social cause is from 1828.
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