喜樂美語
  1. 1aB2/ˈɪrəteɪtɪŋ/ · /ˈɪrɪteɪtɪŋ/惱人的；煩人的

    making you a little angry, especially because the same thing keeps happening again and again. It is used about a person, a habit, a sound, or a situation that goes on and on.

    示範例句 · Example

    Sammy has an irritating habit of leaving the fridge door open.

    逐字Sammy 有一個惱人的習慣，會把冰箱門開著。

    irritating 說的是「一直來、一直來，所以讓人有點火」的那種煩。可以想成一根手指一直戳你——每一下都不重，但一直戳就受不了；所以它最常配的是會重複的東西：habit（習慣）、noise（聲音）、someone always does something（某人老是做某事）。放在量尺上看：比 annoying 更強調「一直重複」，比 infuriating（氣炸了）溫和很多。要說「我覺得它很煩」，英文最常用的是 find something irritating。

    常見搭配

    • an irritating habit

      煩人的習慣

      something a person often does that annoys other people

      She has an irritating habit of interrupting.

    • find something irritating

      覺得某件事很煩

      to feel a little angry about something that keeps happening

      He was smiling in a way I found very irritating.

    • an irritating noise / sound

      煩人的聲音

      a sound that keeps going and slowly annoys you

      The tap made a small, irritating noise all night.

    • the most irritating

      最煩人的

      more annoying than anyone or anything else

      He's the most irritating man I've ever met.

    • so irritating

      有夠煩

      used when you complain about something that keeps happening

      It's so irritating that the bus is late again.

    意思相反

    pleasantsoothingcalmingdelightful

core核心畫面

You can picture the dripping tap you cannot stop hearing — not loud, not dangerous, but it keeps coming back and slowly wears your patience thin. This word sits on the thing doing the rubbing, not on the person being rubbed.

那個關不緊、一直滴的水龍頭。不大聲、也不危險，就是一直來、一直來，把你的耐性慢慢磨薄。這個字站在「磨人的那一方」——是水龍頭 irritating，是人被弄得 irritated。-ing 指向製造感覺的來源，-ed 指向感受到的人，這組對照是這個字最容易錯的地方。

同家族的字

比較級 more irritating最高級 most irritating

意思相反

pleasantsoothingcalmingdelightful

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

irritatingadj/ˈɪə.ɹɪ.teɪ.tɪŋ/

  • 1

    Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.

    • irritating bureaucracy
    • irritating music
  • 2

    Stimulating or exciting a response.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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