aggravate
aggravate 英 [ˈægrəveɪt] 美 [ˈæɡrəˌvet]
vt. 加重；使恶化；激怒
进行时:aggravating 过去式:aggravated 过去分词:aggravated 第三人称单数:aggravates 名词复数:aggravates
- People who chew with their mouths open often aggravate the people near them, meaning that they exasperate their neighbors.
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- vt. 加重；使恶化；激怒
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1. Her questions aggravate him.
她的问题激怒了他。
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2. Pollution can aggravate asthma.
污染会使哮喘加重。
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3. I don't need all this aggravation at work.
我工作时不需要这一切恼人的事。
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4. The drug may cause an aggravation of the condition.
这种药可能导致病情恶化。
- aggravate (v.) 1520s, "make heavy, burden down," from Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare "to render more troublesome," literally "to make heavy or heavier, add to the weight of," from ad "to" (see ad-) + gravare "weigh down," from gravis "heavy" (from PIE root *gwere-(1) "heavy"). The literal sense in English has become obsolete; meaning "to make a bad thing worse" is from 1590s; colloquial sense "exasperate, annoy" is from 1610s. The earlier English verb was aggrege "make heavier or more burdensome; make more oppressive; increase, intensify" (late 14c.), from Old French agreger.
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