goadの意味・使い方・発音

goad

英 [gəʊd] 美 [ɡod]

goad 挑発する、刺激する。

PIE*ghei「刺す、刺激する」から。語源的にはgar「煽る」と同じ。

goad: goad: [OE] Goad comes via prehistoric Germanic *gaidō from an Indo-European base *ghai-. This also produced an Old English word for ‘spear’, gār, which survives today in garlic [OE], etymologically ‘spear leek’.
=> garlic
goad (n.): Old English gad "point, spearhead, arrowhead, pointed stick used for driving cattle," from Proto-Germanic *gaido "goad, spear" (cognates: Lombardic gaida "spear"), from suffixed form of PIE root *ghei- (1) "to propel, prick" (cognates: Sanskrit hetih "missile, projectile," himsati "he injures;" Avestan zaena- "weapon;" Greek khaios "shepherd's staff;" Old English gar "spear;" Old Irish gae "spear"). Figurative use "anything that urges or stimulates" is since 16c., probably from the Bible.
goad (v.): 1570s, from goad (n.); earliest use is figurative, "incite, stimulate, instigate." Literal use by 1610s. Related: Goaded; goading.

1. His opposition acted as a goad to her determination to succeed.: 彼の反対はかえって彼女の成功への決意を刺激した。

2.He wondered if the psychiatrist was trying to goad him into some unguarded response.: 彼はその精神科医が本能的な反応を刺激しようとしていることを疑っている。

3.Ellie uses wit as a goad to try to force people to see what is in front of them.: エリーは自分の機知的な趣味を使って人々を啓発し、目の前のものを見極めようと努力した。

4. " I want somebody very goad , very safe , to plant that gun, " he told Clemenza.: 「私は見て、非常に頭が良く、非常に信頼できる人を探して銃を予定の場所に置かなければならない」とクレメンザに言った。