to excite sb to sth激起某人…;惹某人…
It was in the 20s, when its involvement in the First World War excited America to a sense of moral crisis, that fundamentalism shot to prominence.那是在20世纪20年代, 美国在一战中的参战引发了民众的道德危机感, 基要主义一时间声名鹊起。
The noise excited me to uncontrollable terror.那一响声让我不由自主地感到害怕。