provocative
adj. 刺激的，挑拨的；气人的
n. 刺激物，挑拨物；兴奋剂
adj.
挑衅的；刺激性的；
n.
刺激物；兴奋剂；
双语释义
adj.(形容词)煽动性的，刺激性的，挑衅的 arousing one's emotions,anger,interest, etc.
英英释义
provocative[ prəu'vɔkətiv ]
adj.
serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy
"a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"
exciting sexual desire
"her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
She said nothing particularly provocative.
她没有说过特别够刺激性的活。
Your question was not merely provocative .
你的问题不仅仅是挑衅性的。
She looked very provocative in her bikini.
穿着比基尼泳装的她看来十分具挑逗性。
权威例句
Provocative tests with psychostimulant drugs in schizophrenia.Maternal risk factors in fetal alcohol syndrome: provocative and permissive influences.
DNA methylation landscapes: provocative insights from epigenomics. Nat Rev Genet 9(6):465-476, Epub 2008/05/09
MicroRNAs: powerful new regulators of heart disease and provocative therapeutic targets
Is type 2 diabetes an operable intestinal disease? A provocative yet reasonable hypothesis.
Altered pituitary-adrenal axis responses to provocative challenge tests in adult survivors of childhood abuse
216 Reference values of the provocative concentration of methacholine causing a 20% fall in FEV 1 (PC 20 ) in a normal population
Synthesizing epistemological belief research: Tentative understandings and provocative confusions
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A gold standard evaluation of the "discogenic pain"diagnosis as determined by provocative discography.
provocative (adj.)
mid-15c., "eliciting," from Middle French provocatif (15c.) and directly from Late Latin provocativus "calling forth," from provocat-, past participle stem of Latin provocare (see provoke). Specifically of sexual desire from 1620s. Related: Provocatively; provocativeness. The earliest appearance of the word in English is as a noun meaning "an aphrodisiac" (early 15c.).
1. Once again the measure proved more provocative than effective.
这一措施又是成事不足，败事有余。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. She looked very provocative in her bikini.
穿着比基尼泳装的她看来十分具挑逗性。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. She was sitting in a highly provocative pose.
她坐在那里姿势非常撩人.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. It is however essential that I play out the string and not be provocative.
但是我必须放缓和一些，而不能搞挑衅。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
5. Aziz wasindeed provocative.
阿济兹确实是惹人生气。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
6. Your question was not merely provocative.
你的问题不仅仅是挑衅性的。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. She said nothing particularly provocative.
她没有说过特别够刺激性的活。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. This is an extraordinary and provocative observational fact.
这是一个不平常的，激动人心的观测事实。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. They are being provocative and controversial just to spite us.
他们这样挑衅和争论就是要故意刁难我们。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. Citicorp offers a second provocative illustration.
花旗银行提出了第二个引起争论的实例。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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