Her presence was just one more goad to Joanna's unravelling nerves.

她的出现只是对乔安娜几近崩溃的神经的又一次刺激。

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Like Adams, too, Andrew would seek to goad his adversaries to act, or overreact, creating new opportunities to defeat them.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Andrew Breitbart, Our Samuel Adams

Who else, it asks, will make long-term loans to municipalities (and goad them to privatise services) or help restructure industries such as mining and railways?

ECONOMIST: The EBRD

Liberal satirists feel they ought to goad the powerful, but it no longer comes naturally now that George Bush has buzzed back to Texas.

ECONOMIST: Lexington