单词 | aggravate |
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音标 | ['ægrəveit] |
解释 | v.加重,恶化 |
红宝书 | 【英】 v. 加重,恶化(to make worse; intensify) 【考】 反义词:succor(援助 ); ameliorate(改进) 【记】 ag+grav(重)+ ate→加重; 【同】 派生词: aggravation (n.恶化,激怒; 恼人的事物)同根词:gravity(庄 重;地球引力); gravitation(引力作 用) 【例】 The lack of rain aggravated the already serious lack of food. |
字源 | aggravate (v.) 1520s, "make heavy, burden down," from past participle adjective aggravate "burdened; threatened" (late 15c.), from Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare "to render more troublesome," literally "to make heavy" (see aggravation). Earlier in this sense was aggrege (late 14c.). Meaning "to make a bad thing worse" is from 1590s; that of "exasperate, annoy" is from 1610s. To aggravate has properly only one meaning -- to make (an evil) worse or more serious. [Fowler] Related: Aggravated; aggravating. Phrase aggravating circumstances is recorded from 1790. |
不择手段背单词 | v. 加重, 恶化(使变得更坏或更麻烦) = intensify; 使恼火 【例】Grief aggravated my illness 痛苦加重了我的病情. Don'apos;t aggravate me 不要惹我生气. 【记】ag作, grav重, ate动词后缀-使加重 【参】gravity(n 庄重; 地球引力); gravitation(n 引力作用) 【反】succor(vt 援助); ameliorate(v 改进); alleviate(vt 减轻); console(vt 安慰); allay(vt 减轻; 减少) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】ag + grave 重,沉重,严重→加重 【相关】gravity 重力,grieve 悲痛, (使)伤心 |
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