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    If you are agitated, you are so nervous, angry, or upset that your body will not keep still and your mind will not stay calm. You might walk up and down, talk too fast, or get sharp with people over small things.

    If you are agitated如果你agitated, you are so nervous, angry, or upset代表你緊張、生氣或難過 that your body will not keep still and your mind will not stay calm到身體靜不下來、心也靜不下來 You might walk up and down你可能會走來走去、 talk too fast講話講得太快, or get sharp with people over small things或為了小事對人不耐煩

    It is stronger than worried: a worried person can sit in a chair; an agitated person keeps moving.

    It is stronger than worried它比worried(擔心)的程度更強: a worried person can sit in a chair擔心的人還坐得住; an agitated person keeps movingagitated的人卻停不下來

    Doctors and nurses use it a lot ("the patient is agitated"), and news writers use it about crowds that are close to boiling over. It sounds a little formal.

    Doctors and nurses use it a lot ("the patient is agitated")醫生和護理師很常用這個字(『the patient is agitated』), and news writers use it about crowds that are close to boiling over新聞寫作者也用它來形容快要失控的群眾 It sounds a little formal它聽起來有點正式

    A friend would more often say "she can't sit still" or "he's really worked up." Though actually, you can also agitate a liquid — shake or stir it — and then the liquid is agitated too, but that is a quiet, technical use. The meaning you will meet in ordinary talk is the person who cannot settle.

    A friend would more often say "she can't sit still" or "he's really worked up."朋友之間比較常會說「she can't sit still」或「he's really worked up」。 Though actually, you can also agitate a liquid不過其實,你也可以agitate一種液體—— shake or stir it搖動或攪動它—— and then the liquid is agitated too這時候這液體也算是agitated, but that is a quiet, technical use但那是比較冷門、專業的用法 The meaning you will meet in ordinary talk你在日常對話裡會遇到的意思, is the person who cannot settle是指靜不下來的人

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組成agitate(攪動、使不平靜)+ -ed(已處於那種狀態)。agitate 來自拉丁文 agitare,有「一再驅趕、搖動」的意思。

同家族的字

  • agitatethe verb this comes from: to shake something, or to stir people up
  • agitationthe noun: the shaking, or the restless, upset state
  • agitatorsomeone who stirs people up, from the same verb

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

agitatedadj/ˈæd͡ʒɪteɪtɪd/

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    Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.

    • By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
  • 2

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesOf a solution or substance, violently and chaotically moving around, such as due to being shaken.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。