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/əˈnɔɪ/
To make someone feel a little angry or unhappy.
惹惱；使煩惱
過去式 annoyed過去分詞 annoyed-ing annoying三單 annoys
核心畫面
Picture something small poking at your patience — a phone that keeps buzzing, someone humming the same three notes. It does no damage; it just wears at you. That size is the whole point of the word: it sits well below anger, and it is usually caused by something minor and repeated.
可以想成：一件小事一直戳著你的耐性——手機一直震動、有人反覆哼同樣的三個音。它不會造成傷害，只是磨你。這個「份量」就…更多收起
可以想成：一件小事一直戳著你的耐性——手機一直震動、有人反覆哼同樣的三個音。它不會造成傷害，只是磨你。這個「份量」就是這個字的重點：它遠不到生氣的程度，而且通常是小而重複的事引起的。要形容嚴重的事讓人火大，用 make somebody angry 才對得上。原始詞典資料4 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。
annoyverb詞源 1/əˈnoɪ̯/
- 1
To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
- Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.
- Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; / Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, / Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys.
- 2
archaicTo molest; to harm; to injure.
- to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
- tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
annoynoun詞源 2/əˈnoɪ̯/
- 1
archaicliteraryA feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
- VVe that ſuffer long anoy / Are contented vvith a thought / Through an idle fancie vvrought / O let my ioyes have ſome abiding.
- [I]f she says he was defeated, why he had better, a great deal, have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy.
- 2
archaicliteraryThat which causes such a feeling.
- Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy […]
- The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy; […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。