eliciting 诱发
- He succeeded in eliciting the information he needed from her.
他从她那里问出了他所需要的信息。 - Eliciting or capable of eliciting sympathy or tenderness.
动人的,感人的引起或能够引起同情或柔情的
Elicit \E*lic"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elicited}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Eliciting}.]
To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out
against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to
elicit truth by discussion.
- For the past five years, specialty stores' sales growth has outpaced that of department stores by about 22%, eliciting an almost religious ardor on Wall Street.
- For Americans, ever since the War of Independence, you can do what you want," he said, eliciting laughter among the 150 to 200 people present.
- The defense stepped up its attack on the dead man's character Tuesday, eliciting testimony that he physically abused his former wife, used cocaine in excessive amounts and substituted the tranquilizer Thorazine when he was withdrawing from cocaine.
- But let's face it, Mr. Donahue's real talent is for eliciting and dramatizing other people's points of view, not for propagating his own.
- Pountney's great gifts as a producer have never extended to eliciting humane detail from his operatic actors. When Falstaff is thus reduced to featherweight farce, the subtle insights of Verdi's masterly score cannot register.
- We see it as congressional irresponsiblity eliciting the predictable reaction among people with serious business to do and lives on the line.
- This strategy for eliciting more investment from employers, however, bumps into the government's fiscal troubles.
- In recent years, too, prosecutors have been increasingly successful in eliciting fee information from defense attorneys, such as who paid them and how much.
- Sen. Specter, for example, succeeded in eliciting the essential distinction in the nominee's views on preferential hiring and admission policies.
- Bradley pointed the Falcon's nose up, climbed radically and turned, eliciting groans from his reporter passenger as the "Gs" increased to seven times the force of gravity.