Rankle
['ræŋk(ə)l]
解釋/意思:
(a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
(a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.
(v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.
編輯:齐克
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Fester, be inflamed.[2]. Be embittered, become more bitter, grow more intense.
德斯蒙德錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Fester, smoulder, burn, irritate, gall, disquiet
ANT:Heal, cool, close, calm, quiet, compose
錄入:朱迪思
例句/造句/用法:
- The dimensions of the Brys' ball-room must rankle: you may be sure she knows 'em as well as if she'd been there last night with a yard-measure. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Majuba Hill was made to rankle in the memory of the English people by a persistent press campaign. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Emanuel's soul rankled a chronic suspicion that I knew both Greek and Latin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The suspected prior attachment rankled in his heart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It rankles in you, rusts in you, and pisons you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Comparatively few English people have even heard of this Treaty of Limerick; in Ireland it rankles to this day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Its remembrance rankles still in the bosoms of millions of the countrymen of those brave men who lost the day. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I tell you it rankles in you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
手打:特伦斯