rankling（rankle使人耿耿于怀激怒）

Word of the Day : December 9, 2021

rankle

使人耿耿于怀；激怒；使怨恨

verb RANK-ul

What It Means

Rankle means "to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness."

Rankle 的意思是“引起愤怒、恼怒或引发痛苦”。

Examples

Rae Ann's snooty attitude and rude behavior rankled the host, but he smiled to hide his irritation.

主持人被 Rae Ann 傲慢的态度和粗鲁的行为激怒了，但他微笑着掩饰自己的愤怒。

"Just one caveat: big swaths of this book are fiction, which may rankle readers who are eager to sink their teeth into a good nonfiction book." — Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, 24 Sept. 2021

只有一个警告:这本书的大部分内容都是虚构的，这可能会让那些渴望读一本优秀的非虚构类书籍的读者感到不快。

Did You Know?

When rankle was first used in English, it meant "to fester," and that meaning is related to French words referring to a sore and tracing to Latin dracunculus. The Latin is from draco, the word for a serpent and the source of English's dragon. The transition from serpents to sores is apparently from people associating the appearance of certain ulcers or tumors to small serpents.

当 rankle 第一次在英语中使用时，它的意思是“to fester「溃烂」”，这个含义与法语单词有关，指的是疼痛，追溯到拉丁语 dracunculus。 这个拉丁语来自 draco，意思指 serpent ，也是英语龙的来源。 从 serpents 到 sores 的转变显然是从人们把一些溃疡或肿瘤的出现联想成 small serpents「小毒蛇」。

Quiz

Fill in the blanks to complete a verb meaning "to make angry": n _ _ t _ e.

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