goad 的 2 个定义
- a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- anything that pricks or wounds like such a stick.
- something that encourages, urges, or drives; a stimulus.
- to prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite.
goad 近义词
stimulus
egg on, incite
更多goad例句
- Thus began Johns’s career-long fascination with signs and symbols — not as a subject for representation, but as a goad to pure painting.
- He had no choice but to take up the goad and to do what he did.
- Experts and politicians goad the White House on with demands for tough actions against Russia that they surely know will fail.
- Maybe the public display of pro-Gaddafi sentiments acts as a goad for the killings.
- Paul, by talking up his isolationism, would goad Romney into sounding like Dick Cheney.
- Social and cultural insecurity has also served as a goad to Mormon productivity and achievement.
- He knew how to improvise, how to lead a fellow actor into a state of mind, how to goad them into their best performances.
- Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.
- He called to her, he rallied her; he signalled to Thyrsis to help him—to inspire her, to goad her to new endurance.
- The mahout reached down with his silver tipped goad and touched the elephant on the knee.
- The mahout, fully awake to the danger, beat the old rascal mightily with his goad.
- In his hand he carried a long-handled ox-whip, with a short goad in the butt of it.