| 词汇 | exasperate |
| 释义 | exasperate verb[ T ] uk /ɪɡˈzɑː.spə.reɪt/ us /ɪɡˈzæs.pə.reɪt/ to make someone very annoyed, usually when they can do nothing to solve a problem激怒，使气恼，使烦恼（通常使人束手无策） Synonym infuriate to annoy someone annoyIt annoys me that you're always late. botherIt bothers me that you don't help with the washing up. irritateAfter a while her behaviour really began to irritate me. peeveWhat peeved her most was that he hadn't even called her. bugHe's been bugging me all morning. aggravateIt really aggravates me the way he never thanks me for what I've done. Causing feelings of anger and displeasure aggravate aggrieve alienate anger annoy bend go too faridiom goat grate hack someone off harass nark rub rub someone up the wrong wayidiom ruffle ruffle someone's feathersidiom set someone's teeth on edgeidiom tit tooth troll I do not wish to exasperate the populace, replied the duke. No answer he could have made could have more exasperated her. exasperate | American Dictionaryexasperate verb[ T ] us/ɪɡˈzæs·pəˌreɪt/ to cause anger or extreme annoyance in someone: His assistant’s carelessness is exasperating him. Examples of exasperateexasperate He had certainly never felt more humiliated and exasperated. Philosophically knowledgeable readers will be exasperated and frustrated, while others are liable to be seriously misled. A slight, but nonetheless exasperating weakness lies in the glut of anachronisms peppering the prose of the book. Who wouldn't be exasperated by their challenge to tradition? The more they attempted to resist their inventions the more they become exasperated at the constraints of such identities. He is clearly exasperated by the dictator's failure to heed the hardships which catalysed the revolt and by the subsequent oppression. Such judgements by an exasperated social worker could be interpreted as pathologising an extremely marginalised service user. Readers will be exasperated or delighted by the introductory section. Her failure to consummate that relationship exasperated her even further. On the contrary, groundwater development is seen as a substitute for tanks, which are the main agents of replenishment, thus exasperating the negative externalities. What does the odd and sometimes exasperating way that students 'play' with language suggest in terms of classroom teaching approach? Often this was not done, out of forgetfulness, and after thirty-one days a bill would be delivered to the now exasperated customer which he or she felt obliged to pay. General practitioners are also exasperated by hospitals running out of acute beds and would prefer to be able to use community facilities, including specialists and nurses locally. I find stories of this sort exasperating. He had, on the one hand, to avoid exasperating those who had bailed him out overseas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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