"I haven't any patience for these unprovoked killings. And they've got to stop. Red Cow's none so populous. It's a good camp, and there never used to be any killings. Now they're epidemic. I'm sorry for you, Jack, but you've got to be made an example of. Ferguson didn't provoke enough for a killing."
"Provoke!" Arizona Jack snorted. "I tell you, O'Brien, you don't savve.英文原著 · 《Lost Face》
Wherein, if Pugliano's strong affection and weak arguments will not satisfy you, I will give you a nearer example of myself, who, I know not by what mischance, in these my not old years and idlest times, having slipped into the title of a poet, am provoked to say something unto you in the defence of that my unelected vocation; which if I handle with more good will than good reasons, bear with me, since the scholar is to be pardoned that followeth the steps of his master.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
She played like a dog with its master, letting herself be rolled over, knocked about, and stroked, alternately; sometimes she herself would provoke the soldier, putting up her paw with a soliciting gesture.英文原著 · 《A Passion in the Desert》
"Whereupon du Bruel poured out his soul in excuses and protestations of love. Not a word did she say. He took her hands, she allowed him to take them; they were like ice, like a dead woman's hands. Tullia, you can understand, was playing to admiration the part of corpse that women can play to show you that they refuse their consent to anything and everything; that for you they are suppressing soul, spirit, and life, and regard themselves as beasts of burden. Nothing so provokes a man with a heart as this strategy. Women can only use it with those who worship them.英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
"In 1898 we were a strong and powerful nation and a dangerous enemy to provoke. England recognized the fact and acted accordingly. England entered the present war to protect small nations! Heaven save the mark! You surely read your history. Pray tell me something of England's policy in South Africa, India, the Soudan, Persia, Abyssinia, Ireland, Egypt. The lost provinces of Denmark. The United States when she was young and helpless.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
THE Bible is a book-making book. It is literature which provokes literature.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
Just compete hard enough that you provoke some illegal moves, some unfair competition from Axe.美剧 · 《Billions》
I also haven't watched that movie again for fear of what it might provoke.美剧 · 《Billions》
And the way your mother provokes him! I think they get off on it, and they're making us unwilling participants in their kinky foreplay.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I say, given your overall demeanor and your freewheeling use of epithets, I'm willing to bet that he was provoked.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》