0 something that causes growth or activity -- 刺激（物），激励（物）；促进因素
Foreign investment has been a stimulus to the industry. 外国投资促进了该产业的发展。
The book will provide a stimulus to research in this very important area. 这本书将会对这一重要领域的研究起促进作用。
The tip of the tongue is sensitive to salt and sweet stimuli and the back of the tongue is sensitive to bitter stimuli. 舌尖对糖和盐的刺激很敏感，而舌根则对苦味的刺激很敏感。
As a result the mind is alert, but because it is demodulated and driven by powerful internal stimuli, it becomes both hallucinatory and unfocused.
In each block, stimuli of the various conditions appeared an equal number of times (four).
No attempt was made to have them associate these stimuli with any meaning.
They were to identify both stimuli on an answer sheet.
The stimuli were assigned to the parts as follows.
As can be seen from the sample stimuli, the six sentences within each group varied according to the three agreement conditions.
When movements are made to these stimuli as targets, there are clear effects early in the movement.
All stimuli consisted of active sentences whose grammatical subject is the name of a person.
