piqued

英 [piːkt]

美 [piːkt]

adj.  (常指为小事)生气的，恼怒的，愠怒的
v.  使愤恨; 使恼怒
pique的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：piqued　

COCA.38751

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （常指为小事）生气的，恼怒的，愠怒的
  If someone ispiqued, they are offended or annoyed, often by something that is not very important.
  1. Granny was astounded and a little piqued, I think, because it had all been arranged without her knowledge...
     奶奶很吃惊，我想还有点儿生气，因为所有这些安排都没有告诉过她。
  2. She wrinkled her nose, piqued by his total lack of enthusiasm.
     她皱皱鼻子，为他毫无热情而感到不快。

双语例句

• It piqued her that they should have a secret she did not share.
  他们有她所不知的秘密激怒了她。
• But this has raised public ire to a certain extent and has also piqued the government.
  但是它在一定程度上激起了公众的愤怒，政府的不满也在暗暗滋生。
• She wrinkled her nose, piqued by his total lack of enthusiasm.
  她皱皱鼻子，为他毫无热情而感到不快。
• He seemed piqued when I said he could have tried harder.
  当我说他本可以更努力地试一试的时候，他似乎生气了。
• He had contributed little to the conversation, but his interest was piqued when they started talking about how long they could go on like this against the machines.
  他不知道该说些什么，不过当他们开始谈论有关反抗机器的事情时，他表现出了极大的兴趣。
• Yoshie looked rather piqued at his suggestion.
  吉江看起来被他的建议惹恼了。
• This was unusual territory for an economist in the1990s, but his interest was piqued while he was researching unemployment at the London School of Economics.
  在20世纪90年代，这对于经济学家而言仍是一个很不寻常的领域。然而，当他还在伦敦经济学院进行失业研究时，就已经对这一领域产生了兴趣。
• That piqued my curiosity.
  那件事激发了我的好奇心。
• Their curiosity piqued, they stopped writing.
  他们的好奇心被挑起，停下了手中的笔。
• However, my interest was genuinely piqued when I was shown one of the solar shingles-not panels, shingles-of which the roof was constructed.
  然而，当我看到一块用于铺设屋顶的太阳能瓦片――不是面板，是瓦片――时，我的兴趣真正被勾了起来。