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    Irritability is the state of getting quickly or easily. If someone has high irritability today, small things set them off: a noise, a question, a slow computer.

    Irritability is the state of getting annoyed quickly or easily是一種很快就被惹惱、很容易生氣的狀態 If someone has high irritability today, small things set them off如果一個人今天irritability很高，小事就會惹到他 a noise, a question, a slow computer像是一個噪音、一個問題、或一台很慢的電腦

    We talk about it with mood, tiredness, hunger, pain, and stress. Doctors may ask about irritability when they check how a person has been feeling.

    We talk about it with mood, tiredness, hunger, pain, and stress我們談到它的時候會連帶提到心情、疲累、飢餓、疼痛、和壓力 Doctors may ask about irritability when they check how a person has been feeling醫生在了解一個人最近感覺如何時，可能會問到irritability

    It names the quality, not one flash of anger.

    It names the quality, not one flash of anger它指的是這種特質本身，不是一次突然的生氣

    Though actually, in older science writing the same word can mean that living tissue reacts when something touches it — but almost always meet the easily meaning. It is a little more formal than just saying someone is in a bad mood.

    Though actually, in older science writing the same word can mean that living tissue reacts when something touches it不過實際上，在比較舊的科學文獻裡，同一個字可以指活的組織被碰到時會有反應 but learners almost always meet the easily annoyed meaning但學習者幾乎都只會遇到「容易被惹惱」這個意思 It is a little more formal than just saying someone is in a bad mood它比單純說某人心情不好要正式一點

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組成From Latin irritabilitās; irritable + -ity (the -ity ending makes a noun: the quality of being irritable).

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  • irritablethe adjective; irritability is the noun for that quality
  • irritatethe verb at the root: to annoy or provoke

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。

irritabilitynoun/ˌɪɹɪtəˈbɪlɪti/

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    The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability.

    • irritability of temper
    • Blue No. 1 and yellow No. 6 may also be toxic to some human cells. And as little as 1 milligram of yellow dye No. 5 may cause irritability, restlessness and sleep disturbances for sensitive children.
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    medicinephysiologysciencesA natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways.

    • We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.
    • There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.
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    medicinesciencesA condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.

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。