goad
英 [g??d]
美[ɡod]
- n. 刺激；（趕牲口用的）刺棒；激勵
- vt. 刺激；激勵；用刺棒驅趕；煽動
- n. (Goad)人名；(英)戈德
GRE擴展詞匯IELTS低頻詞
詞態變化
復數:?goads;第三人稱單數:?goads;過去式:?goaded;過去分詞:?goaded;現在分詞:?goading;
中文詞源
goad 招惹，刺激
來自PIE*ghei, 刺，刺激，詞源同gar, goad.
英文詞源
- goad
- goad: [OE] Goad comes via prehistoric Germanic *gaidō from an Indo-European base *ghai-. This also produced an Old English word for ‘spear’, gār, which survives today in garlic [OE], etymologically ‘spear leek’.
=> garlic - goad (n.)
- Old English gad "point, spearhead, arrowhead, pointed stick used for driving cattle," from Proto-Germanic *gaido "goad, spear" (cognates: Lombardic gaida "spear"), from suffixed form of PIE root *ghei- (1) "to propel, prick" (cognates: Sanskrit hetih "missile, projectile," himsati "he injures;" Avestan zaena- "weapon;" Greek khaios "shepherd's staff;" Old English gar "spear;" Old Irish gae "spear"). Figurative use "anything that urges or stimulates" is since 16c., probably from the Bible.
- goad (v.)
- 1570s, from goad (n.); earliest use is figurative, "incite, stimulate, instigate." Literal use by 1610s. Related: Goaded; goading.
雙語例句
- 1. His opposition acted as a goad to her determination to succeed.
- 他的反對反而刺激她堅定了取得成功的決心。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He wondered if the psychiatrist was trying to goad him into some unguarded response.
- 他懷疑那位精神科醫生試圖刺激他作出一些本能的反應。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Ellie uses wit as a goad to try to force people to see what is in front of them.
- 埃莉運用自己的機智風趣啟發人們，努力使他們看清眼前的東西。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. " I want somebody very goad, very safe , to plant that gun, " he told Clemenza.
- “ 我看,得找一個非常精明、非常可靠的人去把槍擺到預定地點去, ” 他對克萊門扎說.
來自教父部分
- 5. Hunger goad him to steal a loaf of bread.
- 饑餓驅迫他偷一塊面包.
來自互聯網