provocation

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provocation 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 激怒, 刺激, 挑拨

[医] 激发[作用]

英文释义

n. needed encouragement

provocation 的真实例句

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Our primary growth has been through our owned and operated channels, but I like the provocation.

—— Can Puck reinvent the news business for the influencer age?

Sometimes a provocation is calculated and the outrage does serve a purpose.

—— Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit

The hypothesis was that Iran would need a strong incentive or provocation to close the strait, a nuclear option of sorts.

—— Trump Made a Deal That Gives Him Nothing He Wanted

In its witty social observations, sardonic humor, and purposeful provocations, it captures one of America’s most lively and wide-ranging literary voices.

—— Jamaica Kincaid: “I find England ugly…I hate England; the weather is like a jail sentence…the food in England is like a jail sentence”

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