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Tease Teased Give Act Tiːz School Children I

Front tease
Pron [tiːz]
Back 【TEASE】
At school, the other children always teased me because I was fat.
在学校里, 其他的小孩老是因为我胖而嘲笑我。
【重点词汇】
tease v. 嘲弄 同: vex
Vocab
teasemock or make fun of playfully

To tease is to pick on someone or to give false hope. You can tease your little sister by saying "nanny nanny boo boo" or by holding a cookie just out of her reach.

Tease, a modern spelling of the Old English taesan “pluck, pull apart" is now associated with the act of harassing. You can still use tease as a verb, though, to describe the act of backcombing your hair to give it volume. But more commonly, tease refers to messing with someone. There’s an old proverb, “Patience when teased is often transformed into rage,” which means if you tease someone a lot, you might get your booty kicked!

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