provocation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 刺激， 煽动，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monkeys are unreasonable animals; they delight in developing tuberculosis on no provocation whatever; in captivity they have a liking for epidemics; and they make scenes by cursing at their masters in seven dialects.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter IIIEmma could not forgive her; but as neither provocation nor resentment were discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had seen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was expressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on business with Mr. Woodhouse, his approbation of the whole; not so openly as he might have done had her father been out of the room, but speaking plain enough to be very intelligible to Emma.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young woman, whose eyelids were apparently inclined to fall together on the smallest provocation of silence, yawned without parting her lips to any inconvenient extent, whereupon Gabriel caught the infection and slightly yawned in sympathy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She also might turn with disgust from him to the superior beauty of man; she might quit him, and he be again alone, exasperated by the fresh provocation of being deserted by 202 Frankensteinone of his own species.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him 'we fed on a thousand things which operated contrary to each other; that we ate when we were not hun-gry, and drank without the provocation of thirst; that we sat whole nights drinking strong liquors, without eating a bit, which disposed us to sloth, inflamed our bodies, and precipitated or prevented digestion; that prostitute female Yahoos acquired a certain malady, which bred rottenness in the bones of those who fell into their embraces; that this, and many other diseases, were propagated from father to son; so that great numbers came into the world with com-plicated maladies upon them; that it would be endless to give him a catalogue of all diseases incident to human bod-ies, for they would not be fewer than five or six hundred, spread over every limb and joint in short, every part, ex-ternal and intestine, having diseases appropriated to itself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, assuredly; I want to give her another chance; Mother and Pet want to give her another chance; come!You yourself,' said Mr Meagles, persuasively, as if the provocation to be angry were not his own at all, 'want to give the poor passionate girl another chance, I know, Clennam.'
-- 'All I will say is, Miss Wade,' he remarked, 'that you can have received no provocation to a feeling in which I believe you have no sharer.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a woman upon whose action under provocation you could never count.
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