provoke是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 激怒; 引起，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again Hermione made a pause, domineering and cold, before she replied: "Yes, I think it is always wrong to provoke a spirit of rivalry.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was prudent, for the monkeys, or apes rather, appearing to be very powerful and extremely active, it was useless to provoke an unnecessary aggression, and the creatures might, ignorant of the power of the explorers' firearms, have attacked them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In whatever way Mrs Jarley received the response, it did not provoke her to further questioning, or tempt her into any more remarks at the time, for she relapsed into a thoughtful silence, and remained in that state so long that Nell withdrew to the other window and rejoined her grandfather, who was now awake.
-- 'Don't you be a fool and provoke me, Sammy, but mind what you're doing, and do it.'
-- was the next question; and this being an easier one to answer, Nell mentioned the name of the village in which their friend the schoolmaster dwelt, as being less likely to be known to the men or to provoke further inquiry.
-- The face, horribly seared by the frequent application of the red-hot poker, and further ornamented by the insertion, in the tip of the nose, of a tenpenny nail, yet smiled blandly in its less lacerated parts, and seemed, like a sturdy martyr, to provoke its tormentor to the commission of new outrages and insults.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His peevish reproofs wakened in her a naughty delight to provoke him: she was never so happy as when we were all scolding her at once, and she defying us with her bold, saucy look, and her ready words; turning Joseph's religious curses into ridicule, baiting me, and doing just what her father hated most showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness: how the boy would do HER bidding in anything, and HIS only when it suited his own inclination.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ay, ay,' muttered the scout, who had listened to this pe-culiar burst of the natives with deep attention; 'they have warmed their Indian feelings, and they'll soon provoke the Maquas to give them a speedy end.
-- 'Here is some confusion in names between us, Le Re-nard,' said Duncan, hoping to provoke a discussion.
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