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incite

🇺🇸 /ˌɪnsˈaɪt/ 🇬🇧 /ɪnˈsaɪt/
verb 编号: I00563 BNC #15494 COCA #11352
表示用言语、情绪或压力煽动、激起某人采取行动,通常带有强烈推动甚至负面意味。
💡 记忆钩子
把一个人从静止状态猛地推起来:先是激起情绪,再把这种冲动推向具体行动,因此 incite 常表示“煽动某人去做某事”。
📝 学习建议
  • 不要把它简单理解成中性的“鼓励”;它常暗示煽动、挑动或诱使他人采取不当行动。
📖 中文释义
verb
  • core 煽动;激起
    📖 指通过言语、情绪或压力把某人的冲动激起来,并推动他采取行动,尤其常指违法、暴力或其他不当行动。核心画面是“把人猛地推起来”,所以重点不只是让人有兴趣,而是促使人真的去做某事。
    💡 常用结构是 incite someone to do something,例如表示“煽动某人采取某行动”;表示被煽动的行为时,也可说 incite violence 或 incite a riot。它通常用于正式、新闻或法律语境,往往带有强烈的负面评价。不要把它和中性的“鼓励”完全等同,也不要误用为不及物动词来表示“自己受到激励”。
    transitive
    The speech incited the crowd to attack the building.
    那场演讲煽动人群袭击大楼。
    His angry comments incited people to protest outside the office.
    他愤怒的评论煽动人们到办公室外抗议。
incites present,singular,third-person inciting participle,present incited participle,past incited past
📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 3 组
provoke or stir up;
同义词集: incite instigate set off stir up
incite a riot
set off great unrest among the people
上位: provoke, stimulate 下位: raise
urge on; cause to act
同义词集: prod incite egg on
The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window
下位: goose
give an incentive for action
同义词集: motivate actuate propel move prompt incite
This moved me to sacrifice my career
上位: cause, do, make
🌳 词源
源自拉丁语,原义与“使动起来、催促、激起”有关,后来经法语进入英语。
From Middle French inciter, from Latin incitō (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citō (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of cieō (“to rouse, excite, call”).
🔄 变式
incited past incites present inciting present
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