Vex (續：苦惱煩躁 激怒 單字大集合)

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1.    

使生氣;使痛苦;使煩惱;使困惑[H][(+about/with/at)]

She was vexed at her failure.

她因失敗而苦惱。

His mother was vexed with him for his laziness.

他母親因他懶惰而生他的氣。

2.    

詳細討論,爭論

Let us not vex the question.

我們不要細論這個問題了。       

3.    

【書】使動蕩;使洶湧





。難過憂鬱

。無憂無慮 

Insouciant



。苦惱煩躁

fidget

He was, like, on a hyper high, and he's constantly talking, constantly fidgeting.

Will you stop fucking about and fidgeting in my peripherals? I'm trying to concentrate.

vex

She was vexed [at] her failure.

His mother was vexed [with] him for his laziness.

Let us not vex the [question].

it's just difficult to imagine what disaster looks like from two people who have made irregularly [paced] character studies and [sonically] vexing song cycles their respective franchises.

vexation

In the meantime, no emotions, no vexations. Spare her.

gall 

It was [galling] to accept the status of a poor relation, but the certainty of seeing Sibella every day was too tempting to be refused.

nettle 

irk 

bile

due to an increase of [bile] pigments in the blood

both the social and the personal scenes, the conversational tone veers between idiotic pleasantries and fathomless [bile], with nothing in between. 

bilious

Everything is photographed [straightforwardly], in cheerful but not [bilious] color, and seen with documentary-like clarity.

Now...an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.

spleen

I will not give in, because I oppose it. Not my pride, not my spleen, nor any other than my appetites, but I do, I.

Don't vent spleen on me! I'm in the smae boat.

I've often thought there should be beauty contests for the insides of bodies. You know, best spleen... Most perfectly developed kidneys...Why don't we have standards of beauty for the entire human body... inside "and" out?

rile

His pick might rile [up] some more unpleasant comments, but please let’s focus on the movies people, always the movies.

chagrin

She follows the clues, using enormous ingenuity, but when she finally meets the admirer she is [chagrined], because there was nothing there, really, but the game,

Terri (Catherine Keener), a writer/editor whose prefers to keep words out of the bedroom, much to the chagrin of live-in beau Jerry,

One of them is Bosco (Eduardo Noriega), a handsome classmate to whom Angela finds herself attracted, much to the chagrin of Cheme.

Her confidence turns him on, and soon he’s inviting her along for the road trip. The next day, to his sober chagrin, she accepts.



wrought

"Changeling" is beautifully [wrought], but it has the abiding fault of righteously indignant filmmaking: it congratulates us for feeling what we already feel—in this case, contempt for psychiatry used as [coercion] and for long-discredited [male]-chauvinist attitudes.

fraught

She had a life fraught [with] hardship.

What's impressive is how well this film joins its parts into a whole. The other Earth idea is left as a fantastical [hook] and [wisely] not considered scientifically, except of course in its role as the film's master image. The relationship between Rhoda and John is seen as fraught with danger. The actors [occupy] their characters [convincingly]. They make us care more than the plot really requires. Earth 2, always [looming] in the sky, encourages us to reflect on how arbitrary our destinies are. In one sense, nothing in our lives was necessary. In another sense, everything was inevitable.

distraught

A distraught Marie notifies the authorities, but sadly, they find no trace of her beloved husband.

Distraught, she alerts the authorities, but a search reveals nothing.



。激怒 

sultry

sulky

Boni reluctantly takes the [sulky] Nenette in, only to hear she's pregnant seven months, it turns out, despite the lack of any [major] bulge.

petulant

showing sudden, impatient irritation, over some trifling annoyance

a petulant [toss] of the [head].  

Rose's petulant [theatrics] don't [bespeak] the perils of boundary-free parenting so much as a mental disorder, or a coarse screenplay. 

Is your name Maggie? How'd you ken that? It's just a hunch. Are you looking for the, uh, petulant dwarf?

disgruntle

to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction

They move into a [shabby] flat, and Monika is soon [disgruntled] with the unglamorous tasks of motherhood.

irk

irate

in another, an [irate] householder asks, "Do you think your personal privacy is worth more than my family's safety from terrorist attack?"

that Miss Rachel, before she had her license or knew anything about how to drive, managed to out-maneuver an irate, screaming cab driver

Well, let's just say I'm a little irate.

irascible

easily provoked to anger; very irritable

John Malkovich’s Osborne Cox, an [irascible], Princeton-educated C.I.A. analyst who has been [canned] for drinking,

During a series of embarrassingly awkward romantic encounters, we sense that perhaps even someone as [irascible] as Greenberg may have found somebody who is prepared to appreciate him for himself - if he would only stop critiquing Florence’s techniques in bed. 

How's Grandma? Is she still surly and irascible?

risible

laughable, ludicrous

trimming nearly half an hour, dropping a [risible] dream sequence, and cutting short the original, fabulously [desultory] ending.

[Swathes] of endless driving footage are gone, along with [risible] scenes like Bud (Gallo) stopping to change his sweater, 



rile

Meanwhile, after the community is [riled] by the return of a convicted sex offender (Jackie Earle Haley),

When her earnest New York boyfriend, Marvin, an actor, registers his disgust at some bondage photographs in a [greasy] sex mag, she can’t understand what he’s [riled] about.

Stanley was the cop whom Rourke played in "Year of the Dragon," and everything about the project shouted overkill: script by Oliver Stone, direction by Michael Cimino, and a racial attitude that was designed to [rile].

I don't want mellow now. I want lively now, mellow later. I think it's fine. That's 'cause you don't want to fight. We should fight more, just get riled [up]. Didn't we fight last night? No, we discussed.

ire

which raise the [ire] of the smut-fearing senator Estes Kefauver. 

In fact, she gained greater [notoriety] for her [high]-profile involvement in the civil rights movement, especially her controversial support of the Black Panthers, which even [aroused] the ire of the FBI.



conundrum 

tantrum

but in childhood, plays with toys and [throws] temper tantrums,

Eventually, Max becomes so overwhelmed he [throws] [a] tantrum, runs out of the house, evades his mother's pursuit, and eventually finds himself alone in some trees.

huff

Just because you disagree, don't walk [off] in a huff. 

to huff [glue].

but onstage, [huffing] her way through Shaw, she’s stiff and unsure of herself. 

But Greenberg doesn’t drive, and he gets [huffy] at parties. He’s no more suited to life in Los Angeles than Woody Allen was, when he had that unhappy encounter with some mashed yeast in a Sunset Strip café, in "Annie Hall."



pique

to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, esp. by some wound to pride

She was greatly piqued when they refused her [invitation]. 

Kaufman’s venturesome dramaturgy and compelling writing scene-by-scene are enough to keep one’s [curiosity] piqued. 

conniption

conniption [fit]

necessitated by the studios' [conniption] over the director's original and more orthodox six-hour cut

Hey, George. You know, your Uncle D walked out on us today. I swear, Rico's father thought he was gonna have a conniption [fit]. I thought he was gonna bust. What do you call it? A crazy move?

















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