aggravate
英語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]源自拉丁語 aggravatus,aggravare (“給……增重,使變差,使煩惱”)的過去分詞,源自ad (“到”) + gravare (“使變重”),源自gravis (“重的”)。參見grave,對比aggrieve、aggrege。
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[编辑]動詞
[编辑]aggravate (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 aggravates,現在分詞 aggravating,一般過去時及過去分詞 aggravated)
- 使冒犯性增加 (自16世紀)
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i],頁號 23,列號 2:
- Once more, the more to aggrauate the note,
With a foule Traitors name ſtuffe I thy throte,
And wiſh (ſo pleaſe my Soueraigne) ere I moue,
What my tong ſpeaks, my right drawn ſword may proue- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 1709 Joseph Addison, The Tatler
- The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.
- (引申) 使惡化,使變差 (自16世紀)
- 1726, Homer, [William Broome], transl., “Book XVI”, 出自 The Odyssey of Homer. […], 卷 IV, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- to aggravate my woes.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 1837, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- […] to aggravate the horrors of the scene
- (現罕用) 使程度/重量增加 (自16世紀)
- He aggravated the story.
- 他把事情誇大了。
- (棄用) 使某人負擔加重 (16–18世紀)
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 28:
- In order to lighten the crown still further, they aggravated responsibility on ministers of state.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 28:
- (現基本用於口語) 激怒 (自16世紀)
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:
- If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 85:
- Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:
近義詞
[编辑]- (使變差): heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, exaggerate, exacerbate
- (激怒): provoke, irritate, exasperate
反義詞
[编辑]相關詞彙
[编辑]拓展閱讀
[编辑]- “aggravate”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- “aggravate”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
意大利語
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[编辑]aggravate
拉丁語
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[编辑]aggravāte