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A provocation is an action or event that makes someone angry or upset — or that is meant to do that. A shove, a public insult, a joke that cuts too deep: those can be provocations. People also say “without provocation” when someone gets angry or violent for no good reason. In everyday English we use it quite loosely for anything that winds a person up. In law it can have a stricter job: the claim that someone else pushed you so far you lost control. That legal sense is narrower than the way friends use the word.
挑釁
組成On the surface, provoke + -ation: the act or result of provoking. Historically from Latin provocare through French and Middle English.
同家族的字
- provokethe verb this noun is built from
- provocativethe adjective: likely to provoke
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
provocationnoun/ˌpɹɑvəˈkeɪʃən/
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The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something.
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Something that provokes; a provocative act.
- The Salzburg Festival stunned the musical world by hiring him to succeed the hallowed Herbert von Karajan, and Mr. Mortier spent the 1990s there scandalizing many of its tradition-minded, well-heeled opera patrons, the most notorious provocation being a production of Johann Strauss’s “Fledermaus” laced with cocaine and fornication and aimed at Austria’s far-right political forces.
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emergency-medicinemedicinesciencesThe second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
- When it's time to check for provocation, ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。