Exasperate
[ɪg'zæsp(ə)reɪt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zæspəret]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Exasperated; imbittered.
(v. t.) To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.
(v. t.) To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.
哈恩編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Irritate, provoke, chafe, vex, nettle, incense, anger, affront, offend, enrage, make angry.[2]. Exacerbate, inflame, render more violent.
乔校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make very angry: to irritate in a high degree.—p.adj. irritated.—adjs. Exas′perating Exas′perative provoking.—ns. Exasperā′tion act of irritating; state of being exasperated: provocation: rage: aggravation; Exas′perator.
編輯:梅根
例句/造句/用法:
- I am firm, and your words will only exasperate my rage. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- You exasperate Mr. Candy, the doctor, on the sore subject of his profession; and he plays you a practical joke, in return, with a dose of laudanum. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- We wondered if any thing could exasperate him. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You annoy me with small meddling, with petty tyranny; you exasperate my temper, and make and keep me passionate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was a subtle insult that never failed to exasperate her father. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- England's course towards the United States during the rebellion exasperated the people of this country very much against the mother country. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Then he directed a look, half exasperated and half jeering, at his wife. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It had been exasperated by the expulsion of its representative from England upon the execution of Louis, and it declared war against England. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To Selden's exasperated observation she was only too completely alive to them. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I was so exasperated that I could have boxed her ears. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- There was something positively exasperating in Bertha's attitude of isolated defiance. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Some times, when her uncle's easy way of taking things did not happen to be exasperating, it was rather soothing. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They creaked under his weight--it was exasperating. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- With Donne it was otherwise; he was troublesome, exasperating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And you are always so exasperating. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Before Mr. Ablewhite could find words to answer in, Rachel spoke in a tone of the most exasperating contempt. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- On Monday morning the weather was in that undecided state which is more exasperating than a steady pour. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
整理:米莉