Goad
[gəʊd] or [ɡod]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; 'the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves'.
(verb.) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick.
(verb.) urge with or as if with a goad.
錄入:内德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
(v. t.) To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
編輯:威拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Prick, point.
v. a. [1]. Prick with a goad.[2]. Incite, stimulate, instigate, urge, impel, spur, arouse, stir up, set on.
錄入:伦纳德
解釋/意思:
n. a sharp-pointed stick often shod with iron for driving oxen: a stimulus.—v.t. to drive with a goad: to urge forward.
手打:米米
例句/造句/用法:
- Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Then soberly and plainly, Mortimer, I goad the schoolmaster to madness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A goad thrust me on, a fever forbade me to rest; a want of companionship maintained in my soul the cravings of a most deadly famine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Her soft nature recoiled from this ordeal, which had none of the stimulus of conflict to goad her through it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It was not the dullest part of this goad in its galling of Bradley Headstone, that he had made it himself in a moment of incautious anger. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment--far worse than my abandonment--how it goaded me! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Goaded by long-suffering patience the worm will turn. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The _picadores_, who have stationed themselves near him, commence the attack with their lances, and the bull is thus goaded to fury. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Another moment, and Mr. Thornton might be smitten down,--he whom she had urged and goaded to come to this perilous place. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I should hate to do it, replied Shirley, but I think I could do it, if goaded by certain exigencies which I can imagine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I must be goaded, driven, stung, forced to energy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Rome provoked the war by encouraging the Numidians to encroach upon Carthage until the Carthaginians were goaded to fight in despair. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was as if she were rousing him, goading him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- These goads will urge them forwards. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He chafes and goads me till--Bah! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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