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Перевод: goad

[существительное]
бодец ; стрекало; возбудитель ; стимул ;
[глагол]
подгонять; побуждать [перен.]; подстрекать

Тезаурус:

1. To possess someone in the mind is to be saved from a brutal repudiation in reality, and instead to love the ethereal, which can neither disappoint nor satisfy, but only act as a goad.
2. The 1695 date was possibly invented by Newcomb to goad his arch-rival John Drakard, who ran the radical Stamford News from 1809 to 1834, as Newcomb was well aware of the 1712 date.
3. Those who have had facts imparted to them effectively will pass the tests and those who have not will fail to pass the tests, and when the lists are read out on Speech Day the incompetence of the bad fact-imparters will be revealed to the world and this will act as a goad and make them impart their facts better in future."
4. "Ah, I see you're conservative in your ways," he sneered, expecting that this would goad me into Satanism.
5. Not a goat to goad
6. In attempting to influence political developments in Poland, the West was reduced to using precisely those instruments that the Bonn government (and Social Democratic opposition) is now belatedly attempting to apply to the GDR: first, a symbolic politics recognising the Church and opposition as partners no less important than the communist authorities who claim to be, but are not, identical with "the state" and, second, the conditional offer of economic help (politely called "co-operation") as a goad to political change - neither pure "carrot" nor simple "stick", but a carrot-cum-stick.
7. "That wis my mother's name, Goad rest her soul," said the man for the fourth time and then had a flash of inspiration.
8. "You shouldn't goad her," said Enid.
9. It is one of the unhappy paradoxes of the Whitehall market-place that it reacts to the goad of strong, abrasive ministers like Duncan Sandys, whose revolutionary ideas it detests, and yet is slow to implement the more balanced, evolutionary policies of a Harold Watkinson, for which it craves.
10. It is as if, with the name, an extra dimension of personality is added - not merely as a pious recollection of the great, but as a stimulus (at times a goad) to the one so named.
11. Having nothing to offer in its place perhaps makes this pure iconoclasm, but it is meant as a goad to sharper thinking.
12. Meditation is the goad, the bit and the whip of the mind.
13. Mrs Major's party set off for the northern half of the seat to goad the faithful and stir the idle while Mr Major toured the south.