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Word of the Day : December 21, 2021
exasperate
激怒;使烦恼;使恼怒
verb ig-ZASS-puh-rayt
What It Means
Exasperate means “to cause irritation or annoyance to someone” or “to excite the anger of someone.”
Exasperate 的意思是“激怒某人或惹恼某人”或“惹怒某人”。
Examples
The flight delays began to exasperate people in the airport.
多次航班的延误开始惹恼被困在机场的人们。
“His suggestions sometimes exasperate the garden designers, who have their own vision of where things should be.” — Jeanette Marantos, The Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2021
“他的建议有时会惹怒园林设计师,他们对应该放在哪里的东西有自己的看法。”
Did You Know?
Exasperate comes from Latin exasperare, whose base, asper, means “rough.” A relative of asper is asperity, which can refer to the roughness of a surface or the roughness of someone’s temper. Another is spurn, meaning “to reject.”
Exasperate 来自拉丁语的 exasperare, 它的词根 asper 的意思是“rough『粗糙』”。 asper 的近亲一个是 asperity,指物品表面的粗糙度或某人脾气的粗暴程度。 另一个是 spurn,意思是“to reject『拒绝』”。
Quiz
Fill in the blanks to complete a word for angry and bitter feelings; a _ _ _ m _ _ y.
acrimony
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