provocations

英 [ˌprɒvəˈkeɪʃənz]

美 [ˌprɑvəˈkeɪʃənz]

n.  挑衅; 刺激; 激怒
provocation的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 挑衅；煽动；刺激；激怒
  If you describe a person's action asprovocationor aprovocation, you mean that it is a reason for someone else to react angrily, violently, or emotionally.
  1. He denies murder on the grounds of provocation...
     他否认激情杀人。
  2. The soldiers fired without provocation...
     士兵无缘无故就开枪了。
  3. The Deputy Commander has condemned this weekend's protest as deliberate provocation.
     副指挥官谴责本周末的抗议活动是蓄意挑衅。

双语例句

• The president-elect says the Guinean people voted calmly and with great maturity despite what he said were many provocations.
  这位总统当选人说，尽管存在他所说的很多挑衅，几内亚人民平静而且很成熟的投了票。
• And I indicated that we would be closely monitoring the situation there and that we urged all parties to cautiously deal with the situation and to refrain from any provocations.
  我表示，我们将密切注视那里的局势，我们并要求有关各方谨慎处理局势，避免挑起任何事端。
• India also wants to push back against what it sees as Chinese provocations.
  印度视图向后推来反抗作为对中国的挑衅。
• We cannot ignore such provocations.
  对于这种挑衅，我们不能置之不理。
• Any such provocations cannot get away without due punishment.
  凡属这类挑衅都逃不脱应得的惩罚。
• He hit her after repeated provocations.
  她一次次招惹他，他就打了她。
• A series of provocations led up to the border war.
  一系列的挑衅事件导致了边境战争的发生。
• It reinforces the resolve of its neighbors to intensify their cooperation to safeguard peace and stability in the region against all provocations.
  这种行为增强了其邻国为维护地区和平与稳定及防范一切挑衅行为进行合作的决心。
• The trauma of partition ensured that relations with Pakistan would long be dreadful, and India has shown admirable restraint in the face of bloody provocations from across the border.
  该分区的创伤表明印度与巴基斯坦的关系将长期不和。然而面对边境上的血腥挑衅，印度却表现出了令人钦佩的的隐忍。
• It is a fact that every effective mood stabilizer blocks the brain process known as kindling, a sensitizing of nerve cells so that they react to even minor provocations with a full-blown mood episode.
  每一种有效的情绪稳定剂阻碍了众所周知的激发（一种神经细胞的光敏处理）的大脑过程，因而他们伴随着一种全面的情绪阶段反应为较小的刺激。