Perturb

[pə'tɜːb] or [pɚ'tɝb]

解釋/意思:

(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

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.

(v. t.) To disorder; to confuse.

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解釋/意思:

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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