Perturb
[pə'tɜːb] or [pɚ'tɝb]
解释:
(verb.) throw into great confusion or disorder; 'Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt'.
(verb.) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; 'She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill'.
(verb.) cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; 'The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet'.
(verb.) disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; 'The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion'.
克里斯整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.
(v. t.) To disorder; to confuse.
手打:尼尔
解释:
v.t. to disturb greatly: to agitate—also Per′turbate.—adj. Pertur′bable that can be agitated or confused.—ns. Pertur′bance Perturbā′tion act of perturbing or state of being perturbed: disquiet of mind: irregular action esp. (astron.) the disturbance produced in the simple elliptic motion of one heavenly body about another by the action of a third body or by the non-sphericity of the principal body; Pertur′bant any disturbing thing.—adjs. Perturbā′tional; Pertur′bative.—n. Pertur′batory the power of deflecting the divining-rod by magnetic influence.—p.adj. Perturbed′.—adv. Perturb′edly.—ns. Pertur′ber Perturbā′tor:—fem. Per′turbātrix.
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例句:
- They perturb and dull conceptions instead of raising them. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Half way down the next flight, she smiled to think that a char-woman's stare should so perturb her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- I have no intention, because I have no right, to perturb your mind now, nor for months to come. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The succeeding half-hour's conversation was not of a nature to calm his perturbed spirit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- No doubt the day on which he was perturbed was the day when he had seen of their release in the newspapers. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Mr. Welland's brow remained clouded, and it was evident that his perturbed imagination had fastened at once on this last remark. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- She seemed truly perturbed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But in truth his views were perturbed. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- His spirit was perturbed to aching. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Not that I had taken note of any particular objects in my perturbed state of mind, but judging from the general character of the streets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- You did not, nor will you fancy, pursued he, that a saint in heaven perturbs herself with rivalries of earth? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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