goad第三人称单数

1. a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
2. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;

   "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves"
   

1. give heart or courage to
2. urge with or as if with a goad
3. stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
4. goad or provoke,as by constant criticism;

   "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"
   

1.招惹；刺激；激怒
If yougoad someone, you deliberately make them feel angry or irritated, often causing them to react by doing something.

e.g. He wondered if the psychiatrist was trying togoad him into some unguarded response...
他怀疑那位精神科医生试图刺激他作出一些本能的反应。
e.g. Charles was always goading me.
查尔斯总是招惹我。

2.刺激；激励
Agoad is something that makes someone do a particular thing.

goad的反义词

e.g. Ellie uses wit as agoad to try to force people to see what is in front of them.
埃莉运用自己的机智风趣启发人们，努力使他们看清眼前的东西。

3.（赶牛用的）尖头棒
Agoad is a sharp, pointed stick that is used for driving cattle.

• goad on煽动,强迫某人...
• goad into驱使
• goad someone into fury使某人发怒

• Poverty was an essential goad to industry.

  出自：E. P. Thompson

• The blame was torture, like knives goading him.

  出自：D. H. Lawrence

• Recriminations simply goaded him into a deeper fury.

  出自：I. Hamilton

• He galloped to the river's edge and goaded the beast to plunge in.

  出自：J. A. Michener

• The inconstancy of a crowd goaded by rhetoric.

  出自：P. Ustinov