• n. 刺激；（趕牲口用的）刺棒；激勵
• vt. 刺激；激勵；用刺棒驅(qū)趕；煽動
• n. (Goad)人名；(英)戈德

來自PIE*ghei, 刺，刺激，詞源同gar, goad.

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.

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(yī)生試圖刺激他作出一些本能的反應(yīng)。

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(fēng)趣啟發(fā)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(yù)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(qū)迫他偷一塊面包.

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