| 单词 | unprovoked |
| 释义 | unprovoked adjective uk/ˌʌn.prəˈvəʊkt/us/ˌʌn.prəˈvoʊkt/If anunpleasantactionorremarkis unprovoked, it has not beencausedby anything and isthereforeunfair: （令人不快的言行）无端的，无缘无故的an unprovokedattackon hercharacter对她人格的无端攻击 Synonym motiveless Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
unprovoked| American Dictionaryunprovoked adjective us/ˌən·prəˈvoʊkt/(esp. of anunpleasantactionorremark) notcausedby anything andthereforeunfair: Witnessessaid theattackwas unprovoked. Examplesofunprovokedunprovoked Human exposure through biting incidents, especiallyunprovokedattacks, should be treated immediately with rabies post-exposure treatment and the bat, where possible, retained for laboratory analysis. From theCambridge English Corpus This interpretation is rendered less persuasive by the fact that cross-sectional studies of impulsive aggression to date have measured subjects in anunprovokedstate. From theCambridge English Corpus This she attempted to do by producing two female witnesses to an act of extreme violence, which, because no context is described, appears to be bothunprovokedand irrational. From theCambridge English Corpus It is a totallyunprovokedcurb on free speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It was a completelyunprovokedattack and the child and school staff had no way of knowing that the animal would enter the school. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It was anunprovokedattack, which we must condemn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We read of "unprovokedattack and aggression"and"flagrant breaches of treaty," and then all the necessary machinery will come into operation when these incidents occur. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Can we in these humiliating circumstances afford to acquiesce in deliberate,unprovokedand, from every point of view, unjustifiable attacks on peaceful merchant shipping? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They were subjected to anunprovokedand brutal attack by a tyrant but did not strike back. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The indiscriminate andunprovokeduse of military force has caused the death or injury of thousands of students and other innocent civilians. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not a question of its beingunprovoked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It would enhance the dangers that similar,unprovokedaggressions could occur in other parts of the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This act of aggression—unprovoked, illegal and unforgivable—must be reversed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no evidence in his report that an act ofunprovokedaggression would have been prevented had we acted differently at the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Our guarantee was againstunprovokedaggression and not the crystallisation of frontiers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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