provocation

Then he says it's a tweak, a provocation.(他又说，这是个调整，是种挑衅。)

This year his provocation was less intentional but had the same result.(然而今年他那似乎并非故意的挑衅行为招致了同样的结果。)

The same officials also insist that the German lecture was not a deliberate provocation.(这些官员也强调德国的那次讲演并非一次有预谋的挑衅。)

Are there not mockers with me? And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?(真有戏笑我的在我这里，我眼常见他们惹动我。)

Food as subversion, as provocation - and as art.(食物是一种颠覆，一种挑衅，如艺术一样。)

Some of the border guards, who had patrolled the barrier day in day out, saw it as a provocation.(一些日夜在此巡逻的边防兵，将这视为一种挑衅。)

He denies murder on the grounds of provocation.(他以受到了挑衅为理由而否认谋杀。)

We will urge there be no provocation.(我们呼吁不采取挑衅行动。)

This was no sudden response to provocation, but a long-planned move.(这并不是对挑衅的突然回应，而是一个长期谋划的行动。)

Officers are occasionally placed in real danger and sometimes subjected to great provocation.(警务人员通常处于非常危险的境地之中，有时不得不面对严重的挑衅。)