Exasperate

(a.) Exasperated; imbittered.

(v. t.) To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.

(v. t.) To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.

哈恩编辑

• I am firm, and your words will only exasperate my rage. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• You exasperate Mr. Candy, the doctor, on the sore subject of his profession; and he plays you a practical joke, in return, with a dose of laudanum. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• We wondered if any thing could exasperate him. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You annoy me with small meddling, with petty tyranny; you exasperate my temper, and make and keep me passionate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was a subtle insult that never failed to exasperate her father. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• England's course towards the United States during the rebellion exasperated the people of this country very much against the mother country. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Then he directed a look, half exasperated and half jeering, at his wife. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It had been exasperated by the expulsion of its representative from England upon the execution of Louis, and it declared war against England. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To Selden's exasperated observation she was only too completely alive to them. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I was so exasperated that I could have boxed her ears. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• There was something positively exasperating in Bertha's attitude of isolated defiance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Some times, when her uncle's easy way of taking things did not happen to be exasperating, it was rather soothing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They creaked under his weight--it was exasperating. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• With Donne it was otherwise; he was troublesome, exasperating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And you are always so exasperating. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Before Mr. Ablewhite could find words to answer in, Rachel spoke in a tone of the most exasperating contempt. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• On Monday morning the weather was in that undecided state which is more exasperating than a steady pour. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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