英 [ɡəʊd] 美 [ɡoʊd]
n. 刺激；（赶牲口用的）刺棒；激励
vt. 刺激；激励；用刺棒驱赶；煽动
n. （Goad）人名；（英）戈德
复数goads
第三人称单数goads
现在分词goading
过去式goaded
过去分词goaded
goad /ɡəʊd/ [ goading goaded goads ]
及物动词 If you goad someone, you deliberately make them feel angry or irritated, often causing them to react by doing something. 刺激
Charles was always goading me.
查尔斯老是刺激我。
可数名词 Goad is also a noun. 刺激
Her presence was just one more goad to Joanna's unravelling nerves.
她的出现只是对乔安娜几近崩溃的神经的又一次刺激。
刺激令人振奋的刺激物;激励 They goad him into doing it by saying he is a coward.他们说他是个胆小鬼，以此刺激他去做这事。
... Expatriate：移居国外的人 Disinfect：消毒，灭菌 Goad：驱使，煽动 ...
... muckrake在名人搜集揭发丑事 goad刺激 provisional暂时的 ...
...点：量词 一． 指事物形状的单位词：1． 条状，块状bar 较规则形状的长方块，长方条 例：a bar of chocolate/soap/goad（刺激物）/iron/candyblock 大块的木头/金属/石头等，常指至少有一面是平面的块。
Her presence was just one more goad to Joanna's unravelling nerves.
她的出现只是对乔安娜几近崩溃的神经的又一次刺激。
Theon knew he should not goad her.
席恩知道他不该刺激他。
They goad Jack to go back inside to be with his family.
他们劝杰克不要冲动，返回反恐组去与家人团聚。
"He told his ministers to goad the villagers into speaking out, " says a civil servant.
"If anything, the service is even more popular than our numbers imply, " said Robin Goad.
BBC: Newsbeat - Technology - Traffic rockets to Twitter site
The growing commercial use of Twitter was presenting the network with a few problems, said Mr Goad.