Irritate
['ɪrɪteɪt] or ['ɪrɪtet]
解释:
(verb.) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame; 'Aspirin irritates my stomach'.
(verb.) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus; 'irritate the glands of a leaf'.
校对:谢尔曼--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To render null and void.
(v. t.) To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.
(v. t.) To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects.
(v. t.) To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.
(n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.
(a.) Excited; heightened.
录入:里基
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Provoke, nettle, chafe, incense, exasperate, enrage, anger, fret, offend, vex, annoy, tease, gall.[2]. (Med.) Inflame (by friction).
录入:诺兰
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Tease, provoke, annoy, exasperate, worry, incense
ANT:Soothe, caress, pacify, tame, mollify
克林顿编辑
解释:
v.t. to make angry: to provoke: to excite heat and redness in: (Scots law) to render null and void.—n. Irritabil′ity the quality of being easily irritated: the peculiar susceptibility to stimuli possessed by the living tissues.—adj. Irr′itable that may be irritated: easily provoked: (med.) susceptible of excitement or irritation.—n. Irr′itableness.—adv. Irr′itably.—n. Irr′itancy the state of being irritant: a becoming null and void.—adj. Irr′itant irritating.—n. that which causes irritation.—n. Irritā′tion act of irritating or exciting: excitement: (med.) the term applied to any morbid excitement of the vital actions not amounting to inflammation often but not always leading to that condition.—adjs. Irr′itātive Irr′itātory tending to irritate or excite: accompanied with or caused by irritation.
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例句:
- Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- His look and manner unmistakably betrayed that he knew who I was, and that he wanted to irritate me into quarrelling with him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- If he could confuse ME, or irritate HER into breaking out, either she or I might have said something which would answer his purpose. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- To talk would be only to irritate. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- What if, for some one of the subtler reasons that would tell with both of them, they should tire of each other, misunderstand or irritate each other? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- I immediately answered Lord Worcester, begging him not to irritate his parents unnecessarily. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The disturbances which reach the ear from carriage, waves, and leaves are irregular both in time and strength, and irritate the ear, causing the sensation which we call noise. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit's fate. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The cool contempt of her manner irritated me into directly avowing that the purpose of my visit had not been answered yet. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He found he could not be useful, and his feelings were too much irritated for talking. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Nobody could have browbeaten her, none irritated her nerves, exhausted her patience, or over-reached her astuteness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- In the irritated state of my curiosity, at that moment, I laid aside the second sheet of paper in despair. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- But if the problem is more heavily charged with power, the taboo irritates the force until it explodes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- If the company of fools irritates, as you say, the society of clever men leaves its own peculiar pain also. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- My presence irritates her and does her harm. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- First, something tickles your right knee, and then the same sensation irritates your left. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- He irritates me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- And that irritates you. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The rain pours; Gardes-du-Corps go caracoling through the groups 'amid hisses'; irritating and agitating what is but dispersed here to reunite there. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There was a most irritating end to every one of these debates. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Nancy, apparently fearful of irritating the housebreaker, sat with her eyes fixed upon the fire, as if she had been deaf to all that passed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- An irritating sense of thirst, and, when I strove to speak or move, an entire dereliction of power, was all I felt. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- More; he irritated it, with a kind of perverse pleasure akin to that which a sick man sometimes has in irritating a wound upon his body. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- That is no answer; or rather it is a very irritating, because a very evasive one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
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