goading

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. Charles was always goading me.
   查尔斯总是招惹我。
2. On the whole, Mr Ahmadinejad seems happier goading the United States than, as he was this time last year, hesitantly wooing it.
   总的来说，比起去年这个时候寻求美国支持时的不情不愿，内贾德更乐于激怒美国。
3. Rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading.
   通过刺激鼓动行动或提高作用。
4. If you keep goading her with boring jokes, she may turn angry.
   若你一直用无聊的笑话刺激她，她会生气的。
5. A group of children were goading another child in the school playground.
   一群孩子在学校的操场上嘲笑另一个孩子。
6. "The situation is so disgraceful and intractable that it requires constant attention and goading," Harkin said.
   “目前的形势非常窘迫、棘手，必须时刻关注并采取有力措施，”哈金说。
7. Tightening the screws too far risks goading Mr Kim to strike back.
   施压过大的危险在于可能驱使金正日反击。
8. Such valor continued once people took to the streets, where reporters describe women as being in the vanguard of action, goading more timorous men to get up and fight for their rights.
   婊子。这种英勇继续一群人走上街头，在那记者说明妇女作为是一种先锋行动，刺激更多恇男子站起来，争取自己的权利。
9. Hsin-mei gave her a brief account of his involvement with Su Wen-wan, but under Mrs. Wang's goading and probing, it became more and more detailed.
   辛楣把他和苏文纨的事略讲一下，但经不起汪太太的鼓动和刺探，愈讲愈详细。
10. Neville was accused of goading City supporters after Michael Owen's dramatic injury-time winner at Old Trafford.
    内维尔被指控在欧文绝杀之后挑衅曼城球迷。
11. A goading, provoking, or teasing remark or act.
    剌激性言行刺激的、激励的、嘲笑的言论或行为。
12. Stop goading the poor beast!
    别再招惹那可怜的动物了。

noun

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

   Synonym:    goadprodproddingurgingspurspurring