sic /sɪk/ TEM8 ( siccing, sicced, sics )

• 1. 

  V-T If someone sics animals or people such as police or lawyers on you, they cause the animals or people to attack you or pursue you. 驱使(动物或人)袭击 [美国英语]

  例：

  On one occasion, he threatened to sic his dogs on a reporter.

  有一次，他威胁要驱使他的狗去袭击一名记者。

  例：

  "So Dick gets to sic the FBI on you," Frank grumbled.

  “所以迪克指使联邦调查局来追捕你，”弗兰克咕噜道。

• 2. 

  You write sic in brackets after a word or expression when you want to indicate to the reader that although the word looks odd or wrong, you intended to write it like that or the original writer wrote it like that. 原文如此

  例：

  How many more day [sic] till the end of term?

  离学期结束还有多少天（days 误拼为day，原文如此）?