| 单词 | irk |
| 释义 | irk (once / 1670 pages) v The verb irk means "annoy," so if the incessant barking of your next door neighbor's pug is driving you crazy, you can say that the noise irks you. Being irked is an individual thing — what drives you crazy might be something your friend doesn't even notice. For example, it might irk your grammarian friend every time he hears someone says "ain't," but other people don't mind it. The earliest version of the word irk, irken, meant "to feel weary or tired," but it later came to mean "to tire of or to be disgusted with." WORD FAMILYirk: irked, irking, irks, irksome+/irksome: irksomely, irksomer USAGE EXAMPLESI think it's the hypocrisy he dresses himself in that irked me most. New York Times(Mar 27, 2013) Last year, Russia began an air force operation in Syria to support President Bashar Assad that’s irked the U.S. in particular. Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) Although the company’s researchers do publish, their work-in-progress is kept under wraps, which irks some academics. Nature(Dec 18, 2016) v irritate or vex Syn|Hyper gall anger make angry |
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