- v. 激怒；使疼痛或发炎
- vt. 使发怒；使急躁 make angry or excite in an unpleasant way
- vt. 使发炎；使疼痛 cause discomfort to (part of the body); make sore
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
"Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"
"It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame;
"Aspirin irritates my stomach"
excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus;
"irritate the glands of a leaf"
- His letter irritated me a little.
- Don't irritate her, she's on a short fuse today.
- Wool irritates my skin.
- Insect bites irritate your skin.
- It irritates and I want to scratch.
- That man really irritates me!
- Bob irritates me—he’s too clever by half!
- His words irritated me.
- The noise was beginning to irritate me intensely.
- After a while the noise began to visibly irritates her.
- Her habit of tapping her fingers on the chair while she read the newspaper irritated him.
- The boy's foolish questions irritated his father.
- His pointless questions irritated me.
- Rudeness irritates me.
- His aggressive manner irritated her.
- His bright and breezy manner sometimes irritated people.
- The slowness of the traffic irritated a person in a hurry.
- It really irritates me the way he keeps repeating himself.
- It irritated me to learn that she had been promoted.
- The smoke irritated my throat.
- The smoke irritated her eyes.
- At first my contact lenses irritated my eyes.
- Rough material irritates the skin.
- The stff collar's irritating my neck.
- These spots irritate.
- The November weather irritate my old wound.
- She was really getting irritated.
- She was moody at times and easily irritated.
- She was deeply irritated at being thwarted.
- He was irritated by a person.
- I was very much irritated by his bahavior.
- He was irritated by the delay.
- I was irritated by my son's endless questions.
- He was slightly irritated by her forgetfulness.
- Ringold was slightly irritated by Wright's interruption.
- I'm irritated that you should reject her like that.
- A muscle contracts when it is irritated by an electric shock.
These things irritated her so much that she could have boxed his ears.出自： J. C. Powys
These domestic crises bored and irritated Wells.出自： V. Glendinning
So boring, and actually sometimes irritating.出自： R. Ingalls
- irritate, aggravate, exasperate,provok
- 1.从程度上说，irritate可以从不愉快、不舒心、瞬间的不耐烦直到勃然大怒，可用于各种程度；aggravate, exasperate,provoke三个词都用于强烈的愤怒。
- It was transparent that she was irritated.显然她是生气了。
- Constant interruption of his work exasperated him. 不断地打断他的工作使他非常恼火。
- Oppression provoked the people to rebellion. 压迫引起人民反抗。
- He aggravates the beyond endurance. 他使她怒不可遏。
- ☆ 1530年左右进入英语，直接源自拉丁语的irritatus，意为激动，激怒。
- easily annoyed
- make sore