| 单词 | provoke |
| 释义 | pro·voke 1. a. archaic < your zeal hath provoked very many — 2 Cor 9:2 (Authorized Version) > b. < enough to provoke a saint > < loved to … make his brakes screech just to provoke her — H.H.Reichard > 2. archaic < can honor's voice provoke the silent dust? — Thomas Gray > 3. a. < a device that provoked an unfailing roar of laughter — Saturday Review > < his candor provoked a storm of controversy — Times Literary Supplement > < no area of school learning provokes as much concern — Education Digest > b. < had foreseen and even provoked this invasion — Francis Hackett > < did his best to provoke an argument — Lester Atwell > c. < provoking a vigorous development of logical studies — Times Literary Supplement > < not merely anticipated the new methods but actually provoked them — Bryan Morgan > d. < provoke vomiting by tickling the throat > < the hit … may provoke the nucleus to eject a particle — G.W.Gray b. 1886 > Synonyms: < his personal emotions, the emotions provoked by particular events in his life — T.S.Eliot > < to imagine the emotions and the actions of which she might provoke a man — B.A.Williams > < it was not until the end of October that Turkey, by bombarding Russian Black Sea ports, provoked the Allies into declaring war on her — C.E.Black & E.C.Helmreich > excite, sometimes close to provoke, may suggest a more active stirring up, moving profoundly, awakening lively interest, or rousing to marked activity < feeling, which had drugged her until only half of her being was awake, had excited him into an unusual mental activity. He was animated, eager, weaving endless impracticable schemes — Ellen Glasgow > < they were interested and excited by this prophetic voice calling for a renaissance in American political life — Bruce Bliven b. 1889 > < your letter as usual excites my envy at the description of your finds — O.W.Holmes †1935 > stimulate applies to the heightening of activity or the rousing of the dominant or quiescent by something that spurs or incites or overcomes whatever makes for inactivity < increasing the supply of liquid assets in order to stimulate spending — W.M.Dacey > < extra iron may be supplied to stimulate the formation of red blood cells — Morris Fishbein > < his own thought was clarified by the impulse to coherent intelligibility which good teaching stimulates — M.R.Cohen > pique suggests provoking by mild irritation, slight, challenge, rebuff, or inciting curiosity or jealousy < one's interest is piqued but not captured by the chronicle of this weak-willed man — New York Times > < the contrast between the pair held puzzles that piqued the inquisitive — Arnold Bennett > quicken applies to a general vivifying, stimulating, or making active, often beneficially < the sound of tuning strings combined with the hum of voices and the flutter of programs to quicken yet more the thrill of expectancy that ran down her veins — Clive Arden > < his response was quickened and deepened by his mystical temperament — Times Literary Supplement > < with his feeling of history quickened and sharpened, he was to find another stimulus to follow up this interest — Van Wyck Brooks > Synonym: see in addition irritate. |
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