**名词 (n.)**:煽动;激励;鼓动。指通过言语或行为促使他人采取某种行动(通常带有负面含义,指激起暴力、仇恨或不法行为)。
/ɪnˈsaɪtmənt/
The politician was charged with incitement to violence after his inflammatory speech.
那位政治家在发表煽动性演讲后,被控煽动暴力罪。
The court ruled that his social media posts constituted a clear incitement of racial hatred, and he was subsequently sentenced to community service.
法院裁定他的社交媒体帖子构成了明显的种族仇恨煽动行为,随后他被判处社区服务。
该词源自动词 incite,加上名词后缀 -ment 构成。incite 来自拉丁语 incitāre,由前缀 **in-**(表示"向内、朝向")和 citāre(表示"驱动、召唤")组合而成,原意为"驱使某人行动"。该词在16世纪进入英语,最初泛指"激励、鼓动",后来逐渐倾向于指煽动不良或违法行为。