| 单词 | angry |
| 释义 | an·gry 1. < angry with anyone who dislikes the Cockney manner — Times Literary Supplement > < angry at the weather > 2. a. < angry words > b. < an angry sky > < a scorpion with wide angry nippers — Robert Browning > 3. 4. a. archaic b. < by angry wolf — John Keats > 5. < an angry red > Synonyms: < she wanted somebody to be angry with, somebody to abuse — George Meredith > Often but not always the word may imply a justifiable cause for displeasure < he hardly ever gets angry, doesn't half stand up for his rights — Margaret Mead > mad is a close equivalent to angry but lacks implications about expression < Old Rough and Ready was getting mad … no official thanks for the victories had reached him — Bernard De Voto > irate stresses vehement irascible expression of displeasure < the men were getting more cautious and at the same time more irate and violent in their language — Anthony Trollope > indignant always suggests some justification for wrath, some righteousness of anger < he … grows very hot and indignant when he thinks of the disrespectful treatment he received — Rudyard Kipling > < the natives, indignant at the insult offered their laws …, made a dash at the rioters — Herman Melville > wrathful and the less common wroth may express the vehemence of irate and the justification of indignant < Mr. Seddon winced. Then he became wrathful in a dry legal fashion. “That”, he said, “is a most improper question” — Agatha Christie > < eyes more wild than those of Moses when, at the sight of the golden calf and the dancing, his heart waxed wroth within him — L.P.Smith > acrimonious implies bitter feeling, rising temper, and caustic expression < no modern subject, probably, has brought forth so much lyric liturgy and acrimonious debate — M.R.Cohen > angry and mad are more common than the other words in reference to animals < an angry hornet > < a mad bull > and angry and wrathful are the most commonly used in the group in reference to raging or ominous natural phenomena < angry storm clouds > < wrathful lightning > |
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