• vi. 燒火；做司爐工；大吃大喝
• vt. 撥旺火；使飽吃一頓
• n. (Stoke)人名；(英)斯托克

來自荷蘭語 stoken,捅，添加燃料，來自 Proto-Germanic*stok,捅，推，來自 PIE*steig,捅，推， 詞源同 stake,stick.引申諸相關詞義。

stoke

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]

1. A friend of his is having a do in Stoke.

他的一位朋友正在斯托克舉辦宴會。

來自柯林斯例句

2. These demands are helping to stoke fears of civil war.

這些要求助長了人們對內戰的恐懼。

來自柯林斯例句

3. They've just opened a new hotel in the Stoke area.

他們剛在斯托克地區開了一家新賓館。

來自柯林斯例句

4. to stoke up a fire with more coal

往火里再添一些煤

來自《權威詞典》

5. He continued to stoke up hatred in his speeches.

他在講話中不斷加深人們的仇恨.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》