For me as an artist, I found it to be provocative to be playing that kind a role.

对我来说作为一个演员，我发现扮演这样一个角色很刺激。

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Conference organizers said Summers was asked to be provocative, and that he was invited as a top economist, not as a Harvard official.

会议的一些组织者说，萨默斯被邀请提出一些能引发争论的问题；他是作为经济学家，而不是作为哈佛官员参加会议的。

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Unless you are writing something very post-modernist - self-conscious, self-reflexive and "provocative" - be alert for possibilities of using plain familiar words in place of polysyllabic "big" words.

除非你在写些非常后现代的东西- - -自我意识，自我反思以及“煽动性”- - -留心尽可能地使用平凡熟悉的词语来代替多音节的“大”词。

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State Department officials give no credence to the notion that the launch would be for scientific purposes and they say the United States is working diplomatically to try to prevent a North Korean action that they say would be provocative, destabilizing and unhelpful.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

U.S.President Barack Obama told reporters in France Friday that the North Korean launch is provocative and should be stopped.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

South Korea,Japan, and the United States say the launch will be a provocative attempt to advance North Korea's ability to deliver warheads, via ballistic missiles.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

So how do you respond in a way that doesn't just play into the attempts to be provocative?

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Maybe the lesson for business and marketers is that sometimes you need to be provocative to rally the troops.

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