"The book stimulated her imagination"
"This play stimulates"
"stimulate my appetite"
"excite the audience"
"stir emotions"
"The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
"This movie usually arouses the male audience"
"These stories shook the community"
"the civil war shook the country"
"excite the atoms"
"excite the neurons"
The handsome young man excited affection in a girl.
那位英俊的年轻男子引起了一个女孩的爱慕之情。