人被煩到
核心畫面直接落在人身上：被戳的是你，所以你又惱又放不下。
adjective · C1
Annoyed and a little worried because something keeps bothering you. In everyday speech this now sounds old-fashioned.
又惱又煩的
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: something small keeps picking at you and will not let go — not a blow, just a poke that comes again and again. A person who has been poked like that is vexed. Hold that picture and the phrase a vexed question makes sense too, because a question can poke at a whole of people for years.
可以想成這樣一個畫面：有件小事一直在戳你，而且戳個沒完。它不是一記重擊，就是那種一再回來的騷擾。被這樣戳著的人，就是…更多收起
可以想成這樣一個畫面：有件小事一直在戳你，而且戳個沒完。它不是一記重擊，就是那種一再回來的騷擾。被這樣戳著的人，就是 vexed。把這個畫面記住，a vexed question 也就通了：一個問題也可以這樣戳一整屋子的人，一戳就是好幾年。From the word’s history
From Middle English vexed, vexede, vexit — by surface analysis, the verb vex plus -ed. The -ed ending means it has been done to you: a vexed person is a person something has vexed.
來自中古英語 vexed、vexede、vixid，構詞上就是動詞 vex（惹人心煩）加上 -ed。-ed 表示「被弄成這樣」，所以 a vexed person 就是被某件事煩到的人。這個「被煩到」的底，兩個用法都共用。
Wiktionary entry for vexed (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:861862283): From Middle English vexed, vexede, vexit, vixid, equivalent to vex + -ed.
Two branches
問題在煩人
同一個「被戳」的畫面轉了個方向：這次被貼上 vexed 的不是人，而是那個一直戳人的問題。這是用法上的連結，不是說這個字先有問題的意思。
adjective · C1
A vexed question, issue, or problem is a complicated one that people have discussed and argued about for a long time and still cannot settle.
爭議多年懸而未決的
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。
vexedadj/ˈvɛkst/
- 1
annoyed, irritated or distressed
- She became more and more vexed as she struggled to cope with the demands of the job.
- He would be left in no doubt that they were annoyed. He might even go so far as to deduce that they were quite vexed.
- 2
much debated, discussed or disputed
- The question, however, as to whether rinderpest bile is capable of producing the disease in a herd innoculated with it is a very vexed one, and round this point heated controversies have been waged in other places than in Natal.
- I leave aside the vexed questions about whether one or two peploi were woven and presented to Athena during the Greater (every four years) and Lesser (every year) Panathenaic festivals […]
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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。