English Dictionary

perk up

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 廃用

(intransitive) To become more upright / (intransitive) to become more lively or enthusiastic. / (transitive) To cause to be more upright, straighten up

日本語の意味

（自動詞）姿勢がまっすぐになる、直立する方向に変化する / （自動詞）元気が出る、活気や熱意が増す / （他動詞）～を直立させる、または～を元気にさせる

When the instructor calls for attention, the slouching students perk up and sit up straighter.

先生が注意を促すと、猫背の生徒たちは背筋を伸ばして姿勢を正す。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To become more upright

The Lion bowed down his head and whispered something to Puzzle [the donkey] at which his long ears went down; but then he said something else at which the ears perked up again.

意味（2）

(intransitive) to become more lively or enthusiastic.

To you, the Iust pretenders to the Bays; The Poet humbly thus a Reverence pays And you, the Contraries, that hate the Pains Of Labour’d Sense, or of Improving Brains: That feel the Lashes in a well-writ Play, He bids perk up and smile, the Satyr sleeps to Day.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cause to be more upright, straighten up

For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.

意味（4）

(transitive) to cause to be more lively or enthusiastic.

[…] ’tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk’d up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.

意味（5）

(intransitive, obsolete) To exalt oneself, take on a higher status or position.

[…] they should not give heed to Women, that would be perking up in matters of Worshiping God.

perks up （ present singular third-person ）

perking up （ participle present ）

perked up （ participle past ）

perked up （ past ）