0 to add fuel to a large fire and move the fuel around with a stick so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat:
1 to add fuel to a large enclosed fire and move the fuel around so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat:
2 to encourage negative ideas or feelings about a particular situation:
He said that there were too many nineteenth century boilers, too much wasteful stoking, inadequate insulation and lagging, supervision and control.
The people who said that the reduction had not been painless might have thought of that before they allowed it to be stoked up.
They have deliberately stoked up expectations that cannot be met.
The problems are being stoked up, and they are horrific to contemplate.
I mention this because it gives an idea of the way in which the thing has "stoked up".
They cannot expand the economy without facing the fearful danger of stoking reflation.
Possibly, some day we may have oil engines, and no stoking to do.
Human degradation on this totally unacceptable scale stokes up the fires of inmate discontent and may bring about a breakdown of the penal system.
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添加燃料以撥旺(爐火), 煽動,激起(不良想法或情感)…
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