这些动词均有“使人不安或烦恼”之意。
bother指使人烦恼而引起的紧张不安或感到不耐烦。
disturb较正式用词,多用被动态。指扰乱,使人不能平静或妨碍别人工作、思维或正常秩序,是程度较深的烦恼。
trouble指给人在行动上带来不便或在身心上造成痛苦。
annoy强调因被迫忍受令人不快、讨厌的事而失去平静或耐心,多指一时的打扰或恼怒。
irritate语气比annoy强得多,指激怒,使发怒,多指一种短时间的反应。
vex侧重指因不断的干扰而引起的烦恼,有时含激怒的意味。
词源记忆法
在16至17世纪时annoy本是个军事用语,有“骚扰”、“破坏”等义,例如annoy a town(破坏一座小镇),annoy the coast(骚扰边境)。其词源可以一直追溯到拉丁短语in odio'in hatred’,但却是从法语anoier'to weary,vex’演变而来,今多释义为“使烦恼”或“使恼怒”。法语借用词ennui(厌倦,无聊)和常用词noisome(讨厌的,令人不快的)也都出于此源,后者原先拼作annoysome。
谐音记忆法
谐音1:annoy=an(=ad,去)+noy(谐音“闹”)→去闹→骚扰
谐音2.我恼。=惹恼、恼怒。
谐音3.爱闹耶。=好吵,你怎么这么爱闹,好烦的。
单词用法
annoy的基本意思是“打扰,干扰”,引申可作“使烦恼,使恼怒”解,强调经常的、不断的干扰、激怒或苦恼。
只用作及物动词,其后多接名词、代词作宾语。
annoy表示“因…而生气”时,常用于be~ed结构。
be annoyed后常接介词at,by,with,介词with之后一般只接人;
be annoyed之后还常接动词不定式或that从句。
I realise now that the things which used to niggle and annoy me just don't really matter.
我现在意识到那些曾令我烦恼不快的事情其实无关紧要。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》They ticked by sluggishly almost as if they were doing it just to annoy me.
这些价格变地迟缓,好像他们这样做只是为了激怒我.
来源:网络文摘精选Does it annoy you if others do things less well than you would, or don't seem to try hard enough?
如果别人不如你能干,或者似乎不够努力,你会很生气吗?
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》" And when you are looking forward to be captain, it was wrong to annoy the owner. "
“ 尤其是当你快要升为船长的时候, 是不该在这时得罪船主的. ”
来源:网络文摘精选Oh , to pick on someone is to annoy or to be mean to that person.
Pickonsomeone就是欺负,招惹别人,或者老是批评别人的意思.
来源:网络文摘精选As the years went by his nastiness began to annoy his readers.
年深日久,他恶毒的文字开始让读者生厌。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》They seldom rock the boat or annoy the mayor or board of aldermen with unusual budget requests.
他们很少捣乱或提出过分的预算要求来为难市长或市议会.
来源:《简明英汉词典》Harry's remarks were beginning to annoy me but he saw the red light and changed the subject.
哈里的话开始使我讨厌,但他好像有所觉察,马上改变了话题.
来源:《简明英汉词典》为房屋抵押而奋斗的私房业主也许会怀疑一个亿万富翁是否了解他们的状况.
来源:网络文摘精选Philanthropy be the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creature.
博爱主义,是那些存心和自己的同类过不去的人的避难所.
来源:网络文摘精选Shower of technical terms will definitely annoy them. as well , give it in the usual parlance.
大量的技术术语会很容易干扰它们, 因此,尽量为他们提供一个都能够接受的通俗说法.
来源:网络文摘精选I sometimes think that all his supposed mistakes are made on purpose just to annoy me.
我有时认为他犯的那些被信以为真的一切错误是故意为了气我.
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