Aggravate
['ægrəveɪt] or ['æɡrəvet]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
(v. t.) To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
(v. t.) To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.
(v. t.) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
手打:尤赖亚
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Heighten (in evil), increase, make worse.[2]. Exaggerate, overstate, magnify.[3]. [Of questionable propriety.] Provoke, irritate, exasperate, enrage.
伊莱恩整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Exasperate, provoke, wound, heighten, intensify, irritate, make_worse,increase, enhance_embitter, magnify
ANT:Soothe, conciliate, assuage, diminish, palliate, neutralize, soften, lessen,alleviate, attenuate, mitigate
錄入:赛斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make worse: to provoke.—adj. Ag′gravating.—adv. Ag′gravatingly.—n. Aggravā′tion a making worse: any quality or circumstance which makes a thing worse: an exaggeration.
編輯:玛杰里
例句/造句/用法:
- But this only tended to aggravate. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Now go away, Raddle, there's a good soul, or you'll only aggravate her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It would please him, if he thought it would aggravate 'Shelby's folks,' as he calls 'em. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The energy which had at once supported him under his old sufferings and aggravated their sharpness, had been gradually restored to him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- They shall be aggravated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- At all hours of the day and night the sailors in the forecastle amused themselves and aggravated us by burlesquing our visit to royalty. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A robbery of a daring and aggravated nature occasioned a vigilance of pursuit, and a strictness of search, they had not calculated on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The cold that followed was of an aggravated kind, and it has now brought with it the worst consequence--fever. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Don't talk to me, you aggravating thing, don't! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The situation seemed desperate, and was more aggravating because nothing could be done until Sherman should get up. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It was very aggravating; but, throughout the interview, Joe persisted in addressing Me instead of Miss Havisham. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- He was in his usual room, his usual chair, and his usual aggravating state of mind and body. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Her tone and manner angered Amy, who began to put her boots on, saying, in her most aggravating way, I shall go. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Ma, pray don't sit staring at me in that intensely aggravating manner! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You're a scolding, unjust, abusive, aggravating, bad old creature! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But experience has shown that the taboo will not solve moral and social questions--that nine times out of ten it aggravates the disease. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- No theory of education that aggravates this danger is consistent with national well-being. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In other countries, the system of taxation, instead of alleviating, aggravates this inequality. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
手打:特雷弗