Displease
[dɪs'pliːz] or [dɪs'pliz]
解釋/意思:
(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.
校對:罗尼
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Offend, dissatisfy, disgust, give offence to.[2]. Provoke, irritate, vex, chagrin, affront, pique, chafe, fret, anger, nettle, make angry.
校對:米利森特
同義詞及反義詞：
[See PLEASE]
校對:伊薇特
解釋/意思:
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.
錄入:梅利特
例句/造句/用法:
- Do I displease your eyes _much_? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- You spoke up just as you used to do, when anything was said to displease you. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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. 雪麗.
- What had I been saying to displease you? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It will not surprise you, it will not displease you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But for very shame, and the fear that it might displease him, I could have held him round the neck and cried. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He half feared to displease him; but he trusted that his generous kindness would be administered so delicately, as not to excite repulse. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Two things displeased Cedric in this speech. 沃爾特·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. 維萊特.
- Everybody tittered, and I was told that Mr. Conkling was displeased. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She was displeased at the personal character Mr. Thornton affixed to what she had said. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- But I was so much displeased, that I entreated Glumdalclitch to contrive some excuse for not seeing that young lady any more. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I know what reward I will claim--one displeasing to Moore, and agreeable to myself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But I will make no further remarks if they are so displeasing to you, though why they should be displeasing I cannot conceive. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- A magnificent feast delights us, and a sordid one displeases. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- His manner of speaking displeases. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A quarrel with one person gives us a hatred for the whole family, though entirely innocent of that, which displeases us. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Whether it pleases him or displeases him, I must maintain my rights and Ada's. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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