Pique
[piːk] or [pik]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) tightly woven fabric with raised cords.
(noun.) a sudden outburst of anger; 'his temper sparked like damp firewood'.
(verb.) cause to feel resentment or indignation; 'Her tactless remark offended me'.
杰弗里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
(n.) The jigger. See Jigger.
(n.) A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.
(n.) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
(n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
(v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
(v. t.) To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.
(v. t.) To pride or value; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To cause annoyance or irritation.
校對:潘西
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Resentment (slight), grudge, umbrage, offence, wounded pride.
v. a. [1]. Stimulate, incite, urge, instigate, spur, goad, set on, stir up.[2]. Offend, displease, affront, provoke, incense, irritate, chafe, nettle, vex, fret, sting, exasperate, wound, give offence to, give umbrage to.
校對:贾斯廷
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Grudge, offence, umbrage, spite, {resentment_(slight)}, wounded_pride,[SeeGRUDGE]
編輯:奥斯本
解釋/意思:
n. an offence taken: a feeling of anger or vexation caused by wounded pride: spite: nicety: punctilio.—v.t. to wound the pride of: to offend: to pride or value (one's self):—pr.p. piq′uing; pa.t. and pa.p. piqued.
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例句/造句/用法:
- This was his answer, written, I suppose, in some pique: True you have given me many sweet kisses, and a lock of your beautiful hair. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- You have no idea how these enigmatic speeches pique my curiosity. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I was the truest wife that ever lived, though I married my husband out of pique, because somebody else--but never mind that. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This from me may appear to strangers like personal pique, but all who know me will acquit me of having ever, in my life, coveted the society of fools. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Miss Van Osburgh's vague feeling of pique was struggling for appropriate expression. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- In what way does it pique you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- As soon as the white-haired man had vanished she said in a tone of pique to the child, Ungrateful little boy, how can you contradict me? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Beautifully finished furniture in quartered oak has always excited the pleasure, and piqued the curiosity of the uninformed as to how this result is obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Also he was piqued that he had been what he called such a stupid lout as to ask that intervention from Mr. Farebrother. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He found a pleasure in setting up Blandois as the type of elegance, and making him a satire upon others who piqued themselves on personal graces. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I exclaimed: and indeed there was something in the hasty and unexplanatory reply which, instead of allaying, piqued my curiosity more than ever. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- At any rate, Betteredge seemed to be piqued by something in the reply which I had just made to him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I was a little surprised--perhaps a little piqued also--by these last words. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Externally it presents the appearance of some curious, uncouth, cast iron box, which, to the uninitiated, piques the curiosity, and when opened adds no explanation of its real character. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is one that piques me singularly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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