irk

英 [ɜːk]

美 [ɜːrk]

v.  使烦恼; 激怒

过去式：irked　过去分词：irked　第三人称单数：irks　现在分词：irking　

GRETEM8

BNC.22719 / COCA.17751

牛津词典

verb

• 使烦恼；激怒
  to annoy or irritate sb
  1. Her flippant tone irked him.
     她轻佻的语调使他很生气。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使恼怒;使厌烦;使烦恼
  If somethingirksyou, it irritates or annoys you.
  1. The rehearsal process also irked him increasingly...
     排练过程也让他越来越厌烦。
  2. She was irked by their behavior...
     他们的行为让她很恼火。
  3. I must admit it irks me to see this guy get all this free publicity...
     我必须承认，看到这个家伙不费一分一毛就这样大出风头，我心里就来气。
  4. It irks them that some people have more of a chance than others for their voices to be heard.
     一些人会比其他人有更多的机会表达自己的意见,这让他们感到愤愤不平。

英英释义

verb

• irritate or vex
  1. It galls me that we lost the suit
  Synonym:gall

双语例句

• Does baggy clothes irk your parents?
  穿松垮垮的衣服会不会让你父母讨厌？
• The rehearsal process also irked him increasingly
  排练过程也让他越来越厌烦。
• Still, as Dmitri Trenin of the Carnegie Moscow Centre says, the Russia-China pairing is no longer merely a sort of diplomatic adultery, used by both to irk America: it has "a dynamic of its own".
  然而，正如卡内基莫斯科中心的迪米特里·特列宁所说的，俄中关系已不再仅仅是两国用来折磨美国的一种外交上的成熟关系，而是“具备了自己的活力”。
• And your late night visits irk me.
  而且你昨晚的造访搞得我够烦的。
• His own failure to do so will irk the officials in Washington who wield such power over his bank.
  而他在此问题上的不作为势必将惹恼华盛顿的那些对他银行有如此重大影响的官员们。
• I must admit it irks me to see this guy get all this free publicity
  我必须承认，看到这个家伙不费一分一毛就这样大出风头，我心里就来气。
• US officials hung the Afghan proponents of a nascent anti-corruption drive out to dry rather than irk Mr Karzai.
  美国官员宁可置阿富汗支持新反腐败运动的倡导者于不顾，也不愿惹恼卡尔扎伊。
• It irks them that some people have more of a chance than others for their voices to be heard.
  一些人会比其他人有更多的机会表达自己的意见，这让他们感到愤愤不平。
• His outspoken honesty continues to irk those in power or who are privileged, but endears him to ordinary people.
  他的坦率与诚实令当权者和那些享有特权的人感到头疼，但是很受普通百姓的钟爱。
• She was irked by their behavior
  他们的行为让她很恼火。