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goad

/gohd/US // goʊd //UK // (ɡəʊd) //

鞭策,鞭笞,鞭打,鞭挞

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbegg on, incite
Forms: goaded, goading
Synonyms
coerce胁迫,逼迫,迫胁,迫害harass骚扰,扰乱,骚扰他人,骚扰别人hound猎犬,猎狗,走狗,走猎犬prod进展,进展情况,进展顺利,进展良好provoke挑动,挑衅,挑起,撩拨tease挑逗,取笑,逗弄,逗趣animate动画,动画片,动画制作,动画化annoy恼人的,烦人,烦人的,烦人的事arouse唤起,激发,引起,激起bully恶霸,恃强凌弱,欺负人,欺凌drive驱动器,驱动,驾驶,驱动力encourage鼓励,激励,励,励志excite激动人心,使人兴奋,激动人心的,激动exhort劝告,劝诫,劝说,叮嘱force力量,力,权力,力度goose鹅,鹅肉,鹅群,鹅的impel促使,推动,鞭策,催促inspirit灵感,鼓舞人心,激励,精神instigate煽动,鼓动,唆使,挑唆irritate刺激性,刺激,恼人的,烦人lash鞭打,鞭笞,鞭挞,鞭策move行动,移动,举措,搬迁needle针,针刺,针头,针剂press按压,按,按键,按语prick挑刺,挑剔的人,挑衅,挑逗prompt促使,提示,迅速,催促propel推动,推进,促进,推动push推动,促进,推,推进rowel行,行车路线,行车sic句子,句号,句式,句中sound声音,声响,音响,音效spark火花,火星,火花机,火花效应spur刺激,刺激性,刺激性的stimulate刺激,激励,激发,刺激性sting蜇伤,刺痛,蜇人,蜇伏thrust猛烈抨击,揕,猛料,猛烈攻击trigger触发器,扳机,触发,诱因urge敦促,督促,促成,促请whip鞭子,鞭打,鞭笞,皮鞭worry担心,忧虑,担忧,烦恼fire up兴起,燃烧,开火,兴建key up调高,键入,钥匙,钥匙在手put up to摆出,摆到,摆出了,摆出一副turn on开启,打开,开通,开启了work up编制,做好工作,做好,工作

Examples

  • 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.