爱华网
annoy、irritate、upset、vex
佳中
这组动词可表示“使人恼火”、“使人心烦”的意思。
annoy指反复打扰、妨碍或纠缠某人，使人恼火或烦躁不安。
1）She sometimes doesthings on purpose just to annoy me.
她有时存心做些事来来气我。
2）He wasannoyed to find that the stamp on the letter had been tornoff.
他发现信封上的邮票被人撕走了很是恼火。
3）He becameexcessively annoyed at the untrue reports on thenewspaper
他对报纸上的不实报道极为恼火。
4）He was ratherannoyed at your blaming him for something that he did not doat
all.
你责怪他他没有做过的事，他相当恼火。
irritate指受到反复打扰或纠缠，失去耐心而生气、厌烦或恼火。
1）The constant arguments of his employees from the nextoffice irritated the
manager.
隔壁办公室员工没完没了的争论让从经理十分恼怒。
2）His stubbornattitude on the refusal of pay increase irritated most ofthe
employees.
他拒绝给员工增加工资的态度顽固激怒了大多数的员工。
3）I’mafraid that your decision will irtitate some of the employees inyour
firm .
恐怕你的决定会激怒你公司的一些员工。
4）Young people oftenirritate their parents with their choices in clothes and
hairstyles, in entertainment and music.
年轻人经常在选择服装、发型、娱乐和音乐上使父母生气。
upset指由于外界的作用或内部的原因使心态失去平衡，心绪烦乱难受。
1）She was muchupset about being misunderstood by her best friendSusan.
被最好的朋友苏珊误解她很难过。
2）Astudent might become so upset, upon hearing that he failedin a test, that
hewould beunable to understand clearly where he went wrong.
一个学生听到他的考试失败而又不明白错究竟在哪里会很澳丧。
3）You oughtn’t tohave gone to the funeral with them. I know that itwould
upset you very much.
你不该去参加葬礼，我知道葬礼会使你很难受。
vex指遇到某事让人感到特别窝火，使心绪不宁、烦躁不安。
1）Mr. Green wasvexed that his driving license had been cancelledfor three
months.
格林先生的驾驶执照被吊消三个月，他心里感到很窝火。
2）It is necessary tofor you to vex yourself at the matter, which has nothingto
do with you at all.
你没有必要为这件自寻烦恼，此事与你毫不相干。
3）It vexed meto think of others gossiping behind my back..
这让我联想到别人在背后说我闲话，我就很恼火。
