| 释义 |
‖ provocateur|prɔvɔkatœr|
[Fr., = ‘instigator, provoker’.]
One who provokes a disturbance; an agitator; an agent provocateur. Also attrib.
1922U. Sinclair They call me Carpenter xxvii. 94 The poor devils who went on strike were locked out of the factories..and their policies bedevilled by provocateurs. 1925L. Trotsky Whither England? v. 99 It must also thoroughly understand that the strike will fail to be immediately defeated only if it is able to offer the necessary resistance to the strike-breakers, provocateurs, Fascisti, etc. 1934C. Stead Seven Poor Men of Sydney iv. 112 What y' raisin' 'ell for; where y' come from? You're a provocateur. 1940‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 142 To say ‘I accept’ in an age like our own is to say that you accept..submarines, spies, provocateurs, press censorship, [etc.]. 1956A. L. Goodhard in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 581 The most important task..is the final extirpation..of all the remnants of these provocateur fabrications. 1961C. Cockburn View from West vi. 67 It looked much as though there might have been some provocateurs at work. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. i. viii. 319 The trial of the provocateur R. Malinovsky. 1976‘J. Davey’ Treasury Alarm i. 13 So you want me to..tell you if he's a genuine bloated capitalist or some sort of provocateur. |