outrage
outrage 英 [ˈaʊtreɪdʒ] 美 [ˈaʊtˌredʒ]
n. 愤怒，愤慨；暴行； vt. 激怒
进行时:outraging 过去式:outraged 过去分词:outraged 第三人称单数:outrages 名词复数:outrages
- If you consider how people are treated in airports an outrage, you get really angry over airport security or the price of airport food. Six dollars for a piece of pizza? What an outrage!
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- n. 愤怒，愤慨；暴行；
- vt. 激怒
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1. The judge's remarks caused public outrage.
裁判的话引起了公愤。
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2. Environmentalists have expressed outrage at the ruling.
环境保护主义者对这一裁决表示愤慨。
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3. No one has yet claimed responsibility for this latest bomb outrage.
迄今还没有人宣称对最近的爆炸暴行负责。
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4. He was outraged at the way he had been treated.
他对所遭受的待遇感到非常愤怒。
- outrage (n.) c. 1300, "evil deed, offense, crime; affront, indignity," from Old French outrage "harm, damage; insult; criminal behavior; presumption, insolence, overweening" (12c.), earlier oltrage (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *ultraticum "excess," from Latin ultra "beyond" (from suffixed form of PIE root *al- "beyond"). Etymologically, "the passing beyond reasonable bounds" in any sense; meaning narrowed in English toward violent excesses because of folk etymology from out + rage. Of injuries to feelings, principles, etc., from 1769.
- outrage (v.) c. 1300, "to go to excess, act immoderately," from outrage (n.). From 1580s with meaning "do violence to." Related: Outraged; outraging.
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