provoke是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

v. 引发；激起；引起；挑衅

网络 激怒；煽动；惹起

变形：

第三人称单数：provokes  现在分词：provoking  过去式：provoked  

完整释义：

v.

1.挑衅,招来,惹起,激起,挑起;勾起,引起
2.激怒;招惹:
3.冒犯;激怒;惹恼;冒火,大动肝火,
4.致使;引起:
5.成为…的原因,引起
6.挑衅;激怒;煽动;挑拨
7.驱使,逼使;激发,煽动某人做某事
8.触怒,使愤怒,激怒
9.渲染,挑拨
10.促成

n.

1.惹起
2.挑拨
3.煸动

例句：

1. S. hopes in that way either to drive Iran to its knees or to provoke an attack by Iran that would justify massive retaliation.
   美国希望那样做要么让伊朗听它使唤，要么激起伊朗发动一场复仇战争。

2. Simply freshening-up the smell of a room is enough to provoke a subconscious impulse towards fairness, researchers claimed.
   研究人员称，仅仅改变一下房间的气味就足以引发人们对公平的下意识冲动。

3. The rule of the tsars was so oppressive that it did not take much to provoke the masses into a revolution.
   沙皇的统治非常暴虐，所以不用花多大气力就能激发大众起来革命。

4. All this suggests that the government is trying to provoke the opposition to violence.
   这一切都表明，政府正在试图煽动反对党的暴动。

5. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev would not say what level of violence would provoke Israel to call off the cease-fire.
   以色列政府发言人马克雷格夫并没有说何种程度的挑衅将取消以色列停火。

6. But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese – even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .
   但是它仍然意味着如此易于激怒中国人——甚至一个简单的评论或句子可能都有种种意想不到的结果。

7. What I am trying to do is provoke thinking, raise awareness and point out that there are real questions here that we all should be asking.
   我所要做的是让人们思考，提高认识，这里面确有问题，我们都应该问个为什么。

8. Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
   然而你们没有听从我，竟以手所作的惹我发怒，陷害自己。这是耶和华说的。