Aggravation
[,ægrə'veɪʃn] or [,ægrə'veʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse; 'the aggravation of her condition resulted from lack of care'.
(noun.) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment.
(noun.) an exasperated feeling of annoyance.
錄入:莫拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
(n.) Exaggerated representation.
(n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
(n.) Provocation; irritation.
校對:贾斯廷
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. A heightening (of something evil).[2]. Exaggeration.[3]. [Of questionable propriety.] Provocation, irritation.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Now it seems nothing; yet it is an heavy aggravation. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- All the unowned dogs who stray into the Inns of Court and pant about staircases and other dry places seeking water give short howls of aggravation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There certainly was much aggravation of sin in my projected intercourse with the Marquis of Worcester. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable aggravation to my exasperated spirit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The girl's father had the truth from her with every aggravation that her violent hate--I love her for it now--could add. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It seems almost an aggravation to her to remember how purely and piously, how much above the ordinary lot, she has been brought up. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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