1·His onetime Illinois colleague, Senator Orville Browning, said that Lincoln explicitly told him that he intended to provoke an incident over Fort Sumter.
他从前的伊利诺斯州的同僚,Or ville Browning议员说林肯明确告诉过他[Or ville Browning],说他[林肯]想在萨姆特堡挑起些事端。
2·Krantz realizes that this is Christina's plan in motion: to profit from Scylla, she's caused an incident designed to provoke global warfare.
“将军”意识到克里斯蒂娜的计划开始进行了:为了从“锡拉”中获利,她制造了一场事故,企图煽动全球性冲突。
3·Let one of you provoke an incident which endangers it and I shall cause that man to curse his mother for giving him birth.
就让你的人挑起一起事件,危机到它,那么我就好归咎于他,诅咒他老娘不该生下他来。