| 单词 | perturbed |
| 释义 | perturbed (once / 2302 pages) adj Imagine a couple of snakes getting loose in a pet shop, and the manager running around trying to round up the snakes and calm down the customers, and you'll picture a perturbed person. Perturbed means flustered and confused. When you're perturbed, you're upset by something, and rattled enough by it to be thrown off your usual calmness into a state of confusion. In astronomy, perturbation is defined as "the effects on a large body when it is subjected to gravitational effects from more than one other large body." When a planet is perturbed in astronomy, it is pulled in different directions by strong forces, which is a great metaphor for what happens to a person who is perturbed. WORD FAMILYperturbed: perturbedly, unperturbed+/imperturbable: imperturbability, imperturbableness, imperturbably/perturb: imperturbable, perturbation, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs/perturbation: perturbations/perturbing: perturbingly/unperturbed: unperturbedly USAGE EXAMPLESWhen my manager first told me he thought it would be a good idea for me to learn to fly a drone, I was perturbed. BBC(Dec 24, 2016) His mood generally ranges from perturbed to exasperated. New York Times(Dec 11, 2016) It's an uncontrollable part of what happens so we're not perturbed about that. BBC(Dec 02, 2016) adj thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) Syn flustered, hot and bothered, rattled discomposed having your composure disturbed |
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