Displease
[dɪs'pliːz] or [dɪs'pliz]
解释:
(v. t.) To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
(v. t.) To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
(v. i.) To give displeasure or offense.
校对:罗尼
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Offend, dissatisfy, disgust, give offence to.[2]. Provoke, irritate, vex, chagrin, affront, pique, chafe, fret, anger, nettle, make angry.
校对:米利森特
同义词及反义词：
[See PLEASE]
校对:伊薇特
解释:
v.t. to offend: to make angry in a slight degree: to be disagreeable to.—v.i. to raise aversion.—n. Displeas′ance (Spens.) displeasure.—adj. Displeas′ant (obs.).—p.adj. Displeased′ vexed annoyed.—adv. Displeas′edly.—n. Displeas′edness.—p.adj. Displeas′ing causing displeasure: giving offence.—adv. Displeas′ingly.—n. Displeas′ingness.
录入:梅利特
例句:
- Do I displease your eyes _much_? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- You spoke up just as you used to do, when anything was said to displease you. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- And when I speak thus I have no impression that I displease God by my words; that I am either impious or impatient, irreligious or sacrilegious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- What had I been saying to displease you? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- It will not surprise you, it will not displease you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- But for very shame, and the fear that it might displease him, I could have held him round the neck and cried. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- He half feared to displease him; but he trusted that his generous kindness would be administered so delicately, as not to excite repulse. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Two things displeased Cedric in this speech. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Once--unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Everybody tittered, and I was told that Mr. Conkling was displeased. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Not that Emmy, being made aware of the honest Major's passion, rebuffed him in any way, or felt displeased with him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She was displeased at the personal character Mr. Thornton affixed to what she had said. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- But I was so much displeased, that I entreated Glumdalclitch to contrive some excuse for not seeing that young lady any more. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- I know what reward I will claim--one displeasing to Moore, and agreeable to myself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But I will make no further remarks if they are so displeasing to you, though why they should be displeasing I cannot conceive. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- A magnificent feast delights us, and a sordid one displeases. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- His manner of speaking displeases. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- A quarrel with one person gives us a hatred for the whole family, though entirely innocent of that, which displeases us. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Whether it pleases him or displeases him, I must maintain my rights and Ada's. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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