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To provoke someone means to do or say something on purpose that makes them angry or upset, often to get a reaction. It can also mean to cause a strong feeling or response in general, not just anger - a sad movie can provoke tears, and a good question can provoke discussion. "Provoke" almost always causes something sudden or strong, not something slow and gentle.
激怒；引起、激發（反應、情緒）
組成"pro-" (forward) + "voke" (to call, from Latin vocare) - literally "to call forth."
同家族的字
- vocalboth share the Latin root voc-, meaning 'to call' or 'voice'
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。
provokeverb/pɹəˈvəʊk/
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To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered.
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To bring about a reaction.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
- Thence Sish went forth into the world to destroy its cities, and to provoke his hours to assail all things, and to batter against them with the rust and with the dust.
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obsoleteTo appeal.
- Even Arius and Pelagius durst provoke To what the centuries preceding spoke.
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。