参考词典中provoke的常规释义:
基本释义
- v. 挑衅,激怒,招惹,引起,激起[(+to/into)]
词形变化
- 时 态:pro·voked, pro·vok·ing, pro·vokes
参考例句
- You'd better not provoke that fellow.
这人招惹不得。 - A provoking delay at the airport.
在机场令人恼火的延误 - He was trying to provoke me.
他向我挑衅。 - The act of provoking or inciting.
激怒挑衅或煽动的行动 - His behaviour finally provoked her into leaving him.
他把她气得终于离开了他.
- You'd better not provoke that fellow.
英英解释
4个动词解释
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
[同] elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, arouse, provoke, raise
[例]- arouse pity
- raise a smile
- evoke sympathy
- evoke or provoke to appear or occur
[同] evoke, kick up, call forth, provoke
[例]- Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple
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- provide the needed stimulus for
[同] provoke, stimulate - annoy continually or chronically
[同] harass, harry, hassle, beset, molest, plague, provoke, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy
[例]- He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
- This man harasses his female co-workers
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