goad

verb

1. （不断地）招惹，激怒，刺激
   to keep irritating or annoying sb/sth until they react
   1. Goaded beyond endurance, she turned on him and hit out.
      她被气得忍无可忍，于是转身向他猛击。
   2. He finally goaded her into answering his question.
      他终于激得她回答了他的问题。

noun

1. （赶牛等牲畜用的）尖头棒
   a pointed stick used for making cows, etc. move forwards
2. （意在惹恼某人而促其行动的）刺激；激励
   something that makes sb do sth, usually by annoying them

1. VERB 招惹；刺激；激怒
   If you goad someone, you deliberately make them feel angry or irritated, often causing them to react by doing something.
   1. He wondered if the psychiatrist was trying to goad him into some unguarded response...
      他怀疑那位精神科医生试图刺激他作出一些本能的反应。
   2. Charles was always goading me.
      查尔斯总是招惹我。
   3. Goad is also a noun.
      
   4. His opposition acted as a goad to her determination to succeed.
      他的反对反而刺激她坚定了取得成功的决心。
2. N-SING 刺激；激励
   A goad is something that makes someone do a particular thing.
   1. Ellie uses wit as a goad to try to force people to see what is in front of them.
      埃莉运用自己的机智风趣启发人们，努力使他们看清眼前的东西。
3. （赶牛用的）尖头棒
   A goad is a sharp, pointed stick that is used for driving cattle.

1. He wondered if the psychiatrist was trying to goad him into some unguarded response
   他怀疑那位精神科医生试图刺激他作出一些本能的反应。
2. Charles was always goading me.
   查尔斯总是招惹我。
3. Ellie uses wit as a goad to try to force people to see what is in front of them.
   埃莉运用自己的机智风趣启发人们，努力使他们看清眼前的东西。
4. He tried to goad me into playing a match with him by taunting me and saying that I was a terrible player.
   他故意说我球打得差，想用激将法诱我和他比赛。
5. For example, the company would like to goad companies to follow the leads of giants like apple ( AAPL) and Microsoft ( MSFT), whoalready have youth programs of their own.
   例如，Afterschool.me有意推动其它公司效法苹果（Apple）与微软（Microsoft）等巨头，这两家公司已经拥有了自己的青少年活动计划。
6. And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
   以笏之后，有亚拿的儿子珊迦；他用赶牛棒击杀了六百非利士人；他也拯救了以色列人。
7. The opposition is trying to goad the government into calling an election.
   在野反对党正努力激起政府提出选举。
8. But the ad was also designed to goad John Deere, its biggest western competitor.
   但这则广告还有一个目的：刺激其最大的西方竞争对手、美国农业机械制造商约翰迪尔（JohnDeere）。
9. Surely he has a Van Gogh or two tucked away at home, I goad.
   我故意激将他：您家里肯定收藏有一二幅梵高（vanGogh）的画作吧。
10. As a manager, he has an undoubted ability to goad his staff to ever greater efforts.
    作为一名经理，他促使员工勤奋工作的能力不容置疑。
11. But all these things went down before the merciless coldness of her mind and the goad of desperation.
    但所有这些在她心里头无情的冷酷和绝望的驱策面前都让步了。
12. The writer said he needed some goad because he was indolent.
    这个作家说他需要刺激，因为他很懒惰。
13. You're trying to goad me into revealing information.
    你们想要刺激我说出那些信息。
14. Urge with or as if with a goad.
    用刺激物或类似刺激物促进。
15. But in the US case, the goad from trade and competition is powerfully reinforced by a jolt from technology.
    但就美国而言，科技进一步有力地强化了贸易和竞争对生产力的促进作用。
16. The horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low.
    早期斗牛中用矛刺戳公牛来刺激公牛并且让它低头的人。
17. "I want somebody very goad, very safe, to plant that gun," he told clemenza.
    “我看，得找一个非常精明、非常可靠的人去把枪摆到预定地点去，”他对克莱门扎说。
18. The US would like to goad him into a fight and are using the Maliki forces to do it.
    美国想鞭策他成为一个战斗和使用马利基力量这样做。
19. So I run straight toward the goad in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above.
    这奖赏就是属天的新生命，是上帝籍着基督耶稣召我去领受的。
20. Antony tries to goad Octavian into single combat, but is finally forced to flee into the city.
    安东尼试图刺激屋大维与他一对一地决斗，但没有成功，被迫逃回城中。
21. Focal point region blend which in Xihu lake front this tradition and the modern age, her each time change con arouse people's interest but renovates the good transformation to her also to be also goad, the practical significance all imagines us must be bigger than.
    摘要在西湖湖滨这一传统与现代交融的焦点地带，它的每次变化都会引起人们的关注，而对它的整治也好，改造也好，现实意义都比我们想象的要大。
22. They can goad us into tactical errors and strategic blunders.
    他们也可以刺激我们进入战术错误和战略上的失误。
23. She is tired of dancing but the need for money goad her on.
    她厌倦跳舞，但对钱的需求驱使她做下去。
24. Michael tries to goad her into coming closer, she instead she orders her henchman to kill Michael.
    迈可试图哄骗她更靠近些，她反而叫手下去追杀迈可。
25. Swimming jogging and cycling are all goad farms of sports exercises.
    游泳、慢跑和骑自行车都是很好的运动形式。
26. He was only too goad to help you.
    他只是太高兴了，不愿帮助你。
27. Don't let your hurt feelings goad you into talking badly about your employer.
    不要让受伤的感觉成为你说雇主坏话的借口。
28. Corn is used as animal feed. A goad, as for prodding cattle.
    玉米被用作牲口饲料。
29. ( used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite. goad with spurs, as of horses when riding.
    （用于生理刺激）使刺激或引起兴奋的。当马跑的时候，用刺激物刺激。
30. Such protests are more likely than SEPA's efforts to goad reluctant officials into action.
    这些骚乱在驱赶那些不情不愿的官员采取行动方面也许比环保总局的努力更有用。

goad sb↔on

1. 驱使（或怂恿、刺激）某人
   to drive or encourage sb to do sth
   1. Goaded beyond endurance, she turned on him and hit out.
      她被气得忍无可忍，于是转身向他猛击。
   2. He finally goaded her into answering his question.
      他终于激得她回答了他的问题。

noun

1. a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion

   Synonym:    prod

2. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
   1. the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves

   Synonym:    goadingprodproddingurgingspurspurring

verb

1. goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
   1. He needled her with his sarcastic remarks

   Synonym:    needle

2. stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick

   Synonym:    prick

3. urge with or as if with a goad

4. give heart or courage to

   Synonym:    spur