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annoy

verb
 
🔊/əˈnɔɪ/
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they annoy
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he / she / it annoys
🔊/əˈnɔɪz/
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past simple annoyed
🔊/əˈnɔɪd/
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past participle annoyed
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-ing form annoying
🔊/əˈnɔɪɪŋ/
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  1.  
     to make somebody slightly angry 使恼怒；使生气synonym irritate
    • annoy somebody His constant joking was beginning to annoy her.他不停地开玩笑，已开始惹她生气。🔊🔊
    • I’m sure she does it just to annoy me.我敢肯定她只是为了惹恼我。
    • I only stay out late to annoy my parents.我在外面待到很晚只是为了气我的父母。
    • it annoys somebody when… It really annoys me when people forget to say thank you.有人连谢谢都忘记说时我确实感到不愉快。🔊🔊
    • it annoys somebody to do something It annoys me to see him getting ahead of me.我看见他领先于我就心里不痛快。🔊🔊
    Topics Feelingsb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • intensely
    • really
    verb + annoy
    • be beginning to
    • be starting to
    phrases
    • do something just to annoy somebody
    • do something only to annoy somebody
    See full entry
  2. annoy somebody to make somebody uncomfortable or unable to relax打扰；骚扰 synonym bother
    • He swatted a fly that was annoying him.他猛力拍打一只搅得他心烦的苍蝇。🔊🔊
    • The wasps were beginning to annoy me.黄蜂开始惹得我心烦。
    3. Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘be hateful to’): from Old French anoier (verb), anoi (noun), based on Latin in odio in the phrase mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me’.