agent provocateur

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌæʒɒ̃ pɹəˌvɒkəˈtɜː/|/ˌeɪd͡ʒənt-/    美 /ˌɑʒɑnt pɹəˌvɔkəˈtɝ/|/-ˈtʊəɹ/|/ˌɑʒɑ̃-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group, particularly by encouraging or committing illegal acts to discredit the group or expose them to prosecution; an instigator, troublemaker.
    — "This agent-provocateur business is quite foreign to British justice."

词形变化

agents provocateurs plural

词源

Borrowed from French agent provocateur (literally “provocative agent”).
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