antagonize
antagonize 英 [ænˈtægənaɪz] 美 [ænˈtæɡəˌnaɪz]
vt. 使…敌对；使…对抗；对…起反作用 vi. 引起反抗
进行时:antagonizing 过去式:antagonized 过去分词:antagonized 第三人称单数:antagonizes
- To antagonize is to provoke someone to react angrily. If your mother tells you to stop antagonizing your brother, she's asking you to stop making him mad.
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- vt. 使…敌对；使…对抗；对…起反作用
- vi. 引起反抗
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1. No company can afford to antagonize China.
没有一家公司能与中国抗衡。
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2. The only thing this guy has planned is to sit back, relax, and antagonize all the “uptight bookworm worriers" by liking their pre-exam panic Facebook statuses.
这种家伙所想的只是坐回去，放松，与他们的“书虫考前焦虑症”对抗，就像是他们在考前在脸簿上的惊慌的状态。
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3. Protesters have tried hard not to antagonize the police by sticking to their anti-China message, staying on the sidewalk and remaining far from the Chinese embassy.
示威者在表达反中国信息时尽量保持不与警察发生冲突，他们聚集在人行道上，并且远离中国大使馆。
- antagonize (v.) 1630s, "to compete with" (obsolete); 1742, "act in opposition to, struggle against continuously," from Greek antagonizesthai "to struggle against, oppose, be a rival," from anti "against" (see anti-) + agonizesthai "to contend for a prize," from agon "a struggle, a contest" (see agony). Meaning "make antagonistic" is by 1882. Related: Antagonized; antagonizing; antagonization.
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