iT01閱讀 "Cultural Diffusion" - 英檢

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paragraph 4
The third type of cultural diffusion - stimulus diffusion - works by quite a
different mechanism. In stimulus diffusion, the knowledge of a trait
belonging to another culture stimulates the invention or development of a
local equivalent.


The word stimulate in the passage is closest in meaning to
(A) contributes to
(B) incites
(C) ...
(D) ...

正確答案為(A)
想請問為何(B)不對呢?

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All Comments

James avatarJames2012-11-26
incite(v.) to encourage or to stir up
Ethan avatarEthan2012-11-29
stimulate在文句中有正面的幫助之意
Ida avatarIda2012-12-03
incite有負面意味 比較類似煽動
Sandy avatarSandy2012-12-07
謝謝!