(noun.) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; 'the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves'.
(verb.) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick.
(verb.) urge with or as if with a goad.
录入:内德
双语例句
Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Then soberly and plainly, Mortimer, I goad the schoolmaster to madness. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
A goad thrust me on, a fever forbade me to rest; a want of companionship maintained in my soul the cravings of a most deadly famine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Her soft nature recoiled from this ordeal, which had none of the stimulus of conflict to goad her through it. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
It was not the dullest part of this goad in its galling of Bradley Headstone, that he had made it himself in a moment of incautious anger. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment--far worse than my abandonment--how it goaded me! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Goaded by long-suffering patience the worm will turn. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
The _picadores_, who have stationed themselves near him, commence the attack with their lances, and the bull is thus goaded to fury. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Another moment, and Mr. Thornton might be smitten down,--he whom she had urged and goaded to come to this perilous place. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
I should hate to do it, replied Shirley, but I think I could do it, if goaded by certain exigencies which I can imagine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I must be goaded, driven, stung, forced to energy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Rome provoked the war by encouraging the Numidians to encroach upon Carthage until the Carthaginians were goaded to fight in despair. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It was as if she were rousing him, goading him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.