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In a way that shows you are and have lost your patience — not sudden hot anger, but the tired, fed-up kind that builds after something has gone wrong again and again. If you say something exasperatedly, people can hear it: a sigh first, a flat or sharp voice, maybe the same question asked one more time ("Why do I have to tell you every single day?"). It is a written word more than a spoken one — you will meet it in stories, telling you how a character spoke, right next to said, sighed, asked. In real conversation people just say "he sounded really fed up". It also goes with actions that leak the same feeling: throw up your hands exasperatedly, shake your head exasperatedly. One useful thing about it: it usually points at a person who keeps doing something, not at bad luck. You are with your little , less naturally with the rain.
不耐煩地、氣結地(一種被煩到受不了、又累又無奈的語氣,不是暴怒)
組成exasperated (feeling worn down and annoyed) + -ly, the ending that turns a describing word into a how-word. Further back, exasperate came from Latin asper, meaning 'rough' — the feeling of being rubbed rough, over and over.
同家族的字
- exasperatedthe adjective this adverb is built directly from
- exasperatingthe same verb seen from the other side — the thing that causes the feeling
- exasperationthe noun for the feeling itself
原始詞典資料1 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。
exasperatedlyadv
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In an exasperated manner.
- His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
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。