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 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。
• But by now it should be clear, your provocations and pursuit of nuclear weapons have not achieved the security you seek; they have undermined it.
  然而，现在应该已经清楚，你们的挑衅行为和谋求发展核武器并没有给你们带来所希望的安全，而是危及了安全。
• 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。
• 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。
• But with North Korea creeping to full nuclear status, there is a growing need for the world to show it is not powerless in the face of provocations from Mr Kim's despicable regime.
  但在朝鲜逐渐接近成为正式核武国家之际，世界越来越需要显示出，在卑劣的金正日政权的挑衅面前，它并非无能为力。
• South Korean President Park Geun-hye warned on Monday of 'reckless provocations' by North Korea.
  韩国总统槿惠（ParkGeun-hye）周一对朝鲜可能发动不计后果的挑行为发出警告。
• Meanwhile, the US cannot ignore the pattern of Sino-Indian border provocations and new force deployments similar to what happened 47 years ago when China, taking advantage of the Cuban missile crisis, routed the Indian military in a surprise invasion.
  与此同时，美国不能对中印边境的挑衅行为和增兵行动这与47年前的情形类似视而不见。当时，中国利用古巴导弹危机之机，发动突然入侵并击溃了印度军队。
• North Korea experts suggest two main motivations for recent provocations.
  北韩问题专家提出两种看法，说明北韩近来采取挑衅行动的主要动机。
• We cannot ignore such provocations.
  对于这种挑衅，我们不能置之不理。
• Gorbachev snapped that the man was just repeating American provocations.
  戈尔巴乔夫厉声斥责那个人正是重复美国人的挑拨。